-<ul>
-
-<li>Is PXE installation working? I'm testing with RHEL6, Ubuntu Lucid
-and Ubuntu Maverik at the moment. If I feel like it, I also test with
-RHEL5 and Debian Edu/Squeeze.</li>
-
-<li>Is X.org working? If the graphical login screen show up after
-installation, X.org is working.</li>
-
-<li>Is hardware accelerated OpenGL working? Running glxgears (in
-package mesa-utils on Ubuntu) and writing down the frames per second
-reported by the program.</li>
-
-<li>Is sound working? With Gnome and KDE, a sound is played when
-logging in, and if I can hear this the test is successful. If there
-are several audio exits on the machine, I try them all and check if
-the Gnome/KDE audio mixer can control where to send the sound. I
-normally test this by playing
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20101012-chef/ ">a HTML5
-video</a> in Firefox/Iceweasel.</li>
-
-<li>Is the USB subsystem working? I test this by plugging in a USB
-memory stick and see if Gnome/KDE notices this.</li>
-
-<li>Is the CD/DVD player working? I test this by inserting any CD/DVD
-I have lying around, and see if Gnome/KDE notices this.</li>
-
-<li>Is any built in camera working? Test using cheese, and see if a
-picture from the v4l device show up.</li>
-
-<li>Is bluetooth working? Use the Gnome/KDE browsing tool to see if
-any bluetooth devices are discovered. In my office, I normally see a
-few.</li>
-
-<li>For laptops, is the SD or Compaq Flash reader working. I have
-memory modules lying around, and stick them in and see if Gnome/KDE
-notice this.</li>
-
-<li>For laptops, is suspecd/hibernate working? I'm testing if the
-special button work, and if the laptop continue to work after
-resume.</li>
-
-<li>For laptops, is the extra buttons working, like audio level,
-adjusting background light, switching on/off external video output,
-switching on/off wifi, bluetooth, etc? The set of buttons differ from
-laptop to laptop, so I just write down which are working and which are
-not.</li>
-
-<li>Some laptops have smart card readers, finger print readers,
-acceleration sensors etc. I rarely test these, as I do not know how
-to quickly test if they are working or not, so I only document their
-existence.</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>By now I suspect you are really curious what the test results are
-for the HP machines I am testing. I'm not done yet, so I will report
-the test results later. For now I can report that HP 8100 Elite work
-fine, and hibernation fail with HP EliteBook 8440p on Ubuntu Lucid,
-and audio fail on RHEL6. Ubuntu Maverik worked with 8440p. As you
-can see, I have most machines left to test. One interesting
-observation is that Ubuntu Lucid has almost twice the framerate than
-RHEL6 with glxgears. No idea why.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Some thoughts on BitCoins</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_thoughts_on_BitCoins.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_thoughts_on_BitCoins.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description>
-<p>As I continue to explore
-<a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin</a>, I've starting to wonder
-what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
-and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.</p>
-
-<p>One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
-verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
-is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
-published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
-possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
-that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
-all transactions. There I can see that my address
-<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a>
-have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
-<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3">1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3</a>
-address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
-<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt">1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt</A>
-of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
-every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
-fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
-address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
-generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
-there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
-organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
-themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.</p>
-
-<p>In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
-regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
-without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
-laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
-If the Skolelinux foundation
-(<a href="http://linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">SLX
-Debian Labs</a>) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
-normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
-Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
-not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
-should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
-income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
-BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.</p>
-
-<p>For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
-accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
-the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
-easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
-access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
-a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
-so I wonder when my kind of shop would start accepting BitCoins. I
-would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
-and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
-if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
-to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
-will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
-probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
-believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
-currencies.</p>
-
-<p>The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
-CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
-competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
-to see which one get the next lump of cash). The "winner" get 50
-BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
-join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
-by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
-and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
-BitCoins. Check out
-<a href="http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/bitcoin-pool/">BitCoin Pool</a>
-if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
-machine to participate there yet, but have seen that running on ones
-own for a few days have not yield any BitCoins througth mining
-yet.</p>
-
-<p>Update 2010-12-15: Found an <a
-href="http://inertia.posterous.com/reply-to-the-underground-economist-why-bitcoi">interesting
-criticism</a> of bitcoin. Not quite sure how valid it is, but thought
-it was interesting to read. The arguments presented seem to be
-equally valid for gold, which was used as a currency for many years.</p>
+<p><blockquote>
+<p><strong>Hvorfor har dere ikke SMS-varsling?</strong>
+<br>Forsøksordningen i 2005 viste dessverre at SMS-varsling i liten
+grad reduserte antallet borttauede biler. De som abonnerte på
+ordningen unngikk naturligvis feilparkeringer, men plassene ble brukt
+av "fremmede" biler altså av bileiere som ikke abonnerte og dermed
+ikke ble varslet.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>Det gir inntrykk av at kommunen i stedet for å se på SMS-varsling
+som en tjeneste for innbyggerne, som kunne gjøre at de innbyggerne som
+benyttet seg av tjenesten slapp å få tauet bilen sin, så på det som en
+tjeneste for seg selv for å redusere antall tauinger. Forklaringen
+synes jeg illustrerer veldig godt hvorfor det er så viktig å se på hva
+som er fokus for tjenester som leveres og hva som er
+suksesskriteriene. Jeg mistenker at hvis suksesskriteriet for
+SMS-tjenesten hadde vært hvor fornøyd brukerne av SMS-tjenesten var,
+så ville den blitt videreført. Eller hvis suksesskriteriet var økt
+bruk av tjenesten. Jeg vet i hvert fall mange som gjerne vil slippe å
+både daglig besøke bilen sin der den er parkert i Oslo, og som gjerne
+vil varsles i stedet for å oppdage at bilen er tauet bort når de
+trenger den.</p>
+
+<p>Mon tro hvor mange som må bruke en slik tjeneste før andelen
+bort-tauinger blir redusert? Jeg mistenker den må være godt over 50%
+av alle med bil i Oslo, før det er større sannsynlighet for at en
+ledig men risikofylt parkeringsplass blir stående ledig enn at den blir
+tatt umiddelbart. Det er for stort press på parkeringsplasser i Oslo
+i dag til å tro at en ledig parkeringsplass blir stående ubrukt med
+mindre sjåføren vet at det er risikabelt å stå der. Hvis reduksjon i
+antall bort-tauinger var suksesskriteriet for SMS-tjenesten var en
+dermed garantert å konkludere med at den feilet, da det er umulig å få
+så stor bruksprosent i en prøvedrift.</p>
+
+<p>Fokus for <a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/">FiksGataMi</a> er
+innbyggeren, og et av suksesskriteriene er at innbyggerne som bruker
+tjenesten er fornøyde med at rapportene blir synliggjort og levert til
+relevant offentlig myndighet. Det er naturligvis fint om de som
+mottar meldingene også har nytte av tjenesten, og at problemene blir
+fikset, men det viktigste er innbyggernes opplevelse. Innbyggerne
+skal oppleve tjenesten som enkel og effektiv, slik at vi sikrer at
+flest mulig klarer å bidra til å forbedre offentlig infrastruktur.</p>