<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/</link>
+ <item>
+ <title>Etterprøvbar kunnskap under press, alle mann til pumpene!</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Etterpr_vbar_kunnskap_under_press__alle_mann_til_pumpene_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Etterpr_vbar_kunnskap_under_press__alle_mann_til_pumpene_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Jeg har sterk tro på vitenskap, som er et annet navn på
+etterprøvbar kunnskap, som metode for å sikre et velfungerende
+samfunn. Eller som en fantastisk reklamekampanje i England formulerte
+det, <a href="http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/3567">vitenskap
+flyr deg til månen, religion flyr deg inn i bygninger</a>. Men den
+vitenskapelige metode trenger folk med kunnskap, evne og vilje til å
+gjøre sitt beste, og settes under press av et samfunn som ikke akkurat
+belønner slike egenskaper. Her er noen skremmende og oppmuntrende
+lenker relatert jeg anbefaler alle å lese:</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/sep/21/drugs-industry-scandal-ben-goldacre">The
+drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal</a> - Ben Goldacre i The Guardian
+2012-09-21</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/09/22/kultur/debatt/debattinnlegg/utdanning/realfag/23535203/">Norsk
+skole har ikke realfag</a> - kronikk av Hege Tunstad i Dagbladet
+2012-09-22, basert på
+<a href="http://hegetunstad.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/norsk-skole-har-ikke-realfag/">en bloggpost 2012-09-19</a>.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://tjomlid.com/2012/09/22/folkeopplysningen-alt-du-trenger-a-vite-om-homeopati/">Folkeopplysningen:
+ Alt du trenger å vite om homeopati!</a> - bloggpost av Gunnar R. Tjomlid
+ 2012-09-22.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>Ingen tvil om at alle gode krefter må jobbe sammen for å sikre at
+vi vet hvor vi skal fly.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Seventy percent done with Norwegian docbook version of Free Culture</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Seventy_percent_done_with_Norwegian_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Seventy_percent_done_with_Norwegian_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Since this summer, I have worked in my spare time on a Norwegian <a
+href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> version of the 2004 book <a
+href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> by Lawrence Lessig.
+The reason is that this book is a great primer on what problems exist
+in the current copyright laws, and I want it to be available also for
+those that are reluctant do read an English book.
+
+When I started, I
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html">called
+for volunteers</a> to help me, but too few have volunteered so far,
+and progress is a bit slow. Anyway, today I broken the 70 percent
+mark for the first rough translation. At the moment, less than 700
+strings (paragraphs, index terms, titles) are left to translate. With
+my current progress of 10-20 strings per day, it will take a while to
+complete the translation. This graph show the updated progress:</p>
+
+<img width="80%" align="center" src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png">
+
+<p>Progress have slowed down lately due to family and work
+commitments. If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out
+the project files currently available from
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>.</p>
+
+<p>If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
+the updated
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true">PDF</a>
+and
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true">EPUB</a>
+are published on github. The HTML version is published as well, but
+github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
+saw no point in linking to that version.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Vitenskaplig metode i politikken?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vitenskaplig_metode_i_politikken_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vitenskaplig_metode_i_politikken_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Jeg ble for noen dager siden tipset om en rapport utarbeidet av
+Cabinet Office i England ved navn
+<a href="http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/test-learn-adapt-developing-public-policy-randomised-controlled-trials">Test,
+Learn, Adapt: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled
+Trials</a>, skrevet av blant annet Ben Goldacre (som jeg først ble
+klar over da han holdt et veldig interessant TED-foredrag med tittel
+<a href="http://archive.org/details/BenGoldacre_2011G">Battling bad
+science</a>). Rapporten handler om hvordan det offentlige burde bruke
+vitenskaplige metoder i større grad for å finne ut hvilke virkemidler
+som er mest effektive når en skal regulere samfunnet. Her er et sitat
+fra starten av rapporten:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are the best way to determine
+ wheather a policy is working. They are now used extensively in
+ international development, medicine, and business to identify which
+ policy, drug or sales method is most effective. They are also at
+ the heart of the Behavioural Insights Team's methodology.</p>
+
+<p>However, RCTs are not rutinely used to test the effectiveness of
+ public policy interventions in the UK. We think they should be.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>Her tror jeg også Norge har noe å lære. Det offentlige bruker mye
+penger på aktiviteter der det ikke er åpenbart (og heller ikke blir
+målt) at den reelle effekten er det en ønsker å oppnå. Ruters
+elektroniske billettsystem, NAV-reformen, økt bruk av penger på
+politiet og sykehussammenslåinger kommer meg i hug.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Debian Edu interview: Giorgio Pioda</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>After a long break in my row of interviews with people in the
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
+community, I finally found time to wrap up another. This time it is
+Giorgio Pioda, which showed up on the mailing list at the start of
+this year, asking questions and inspiring us to improve the first time
+administrators experience with Skolelinux. :) The interview was
+conduced in May, but I only found time to publish it now.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I have a PhD in chemistry but since several years I work as teacher
+in secondary (15-18 year old students) and tertiary (a kind of "light"
+university) schools. Five years ago I started to manage a Learning
+Management Service server and slowly I got more and more involved with
+IT. 3 years ago the graduating schools moved completely to Linux and I
+got the head of the IT for this. The experience collected in chemistry
+labs computers (for example NMR analysis of protein folding) and in
+the IT-courses during university where sufficient to start. Self
+training is anyway very important</p>
+
+<p>I live in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, and the
+<a href="http://www.spse.ch/">SPSE school</a> (secondary) is a very
+special sport school for young people who try to became sport pro (for
+all sports, we have dozens of disciplines represented) and we are
+recognised by the Olympic Swiss Organisation.
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Looking for Linux / Primary Domain Controller (PDC) I found it
+already several years ago. But since the system was still not
+Kerberized and since our schools relies strongly on laptops I didn't
+use it. I plan to introduce it in the next future, probably for the
+next school year, since the squeeze release solved this security
+hole.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Many. First of all there is a strong and living community that is
+very generous for help and hints. Chat help is crucial, together with
+the mailing list. Second. With Skolelinux you get an already well
+engineered platform and you don't have to start to build up your PDC
+and your clients from GNU/scratch; I've already done this once and I
+can tell it, it is hard. Third, since Skolelinux is a standard
+platform, it is way easier to educate other IT people and even if the
+head IT is sick another one could pick up the task without too much
+hassle.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>The only real problem I see is that it is a little too less
+flexible at client level. Debian stable is rocky and desirable, but
+there are many reasons that force for another choice. For example the
+need of new drivers for new PC, or the need for a specific OS for some
+devices that have specific software packages for another specific
+distribution (I have such a case for whiteboards that have only
+Ubuntu packages). Thus, I prepared compatibility packages educlient
+and eduroaming, hoping not to use them ;-)</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I have a Debian Stable PDC at school (Kerberos, NIS, NFS) with
+mixed Debian and Ubuntu clients. If you think that this triad
+combination is exotic... well I discovered right yesterday that
+<a href="http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/Perceus-Report.html">Perceus</a>
+has the same...</p>
+
+<p>For myself I run Debian wheezy/sid, but this combination is good
+only I you have enough competence to fix stuff for yourself, if
+something breaks. Daily I use texmacs, gnumeric, a little bit of R
+statistics, kmplot, and less frequently OpenOffice.org.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<P>I think that the only real argument that school managers "hear" is
+cost reduction. They don't give too much weight on quality, stability,
+just because they are normally not open to change.</p>
+
+<p>Students adapts very quickly to GNU/Linux (and for them being able
+to switch between different OS is a plus value); teachers and managers
+don't.</p>
+
+<p>We decided to move to Linux because students at our school have own
+laptop and we have the responsibility to keep the laptop ready to use;
+we were really unsatisfied with Microsoft since every Monday we had 20
+machine to fix for viral infections... With Linux this has been
+reduced to zero, since people installs almost only from official
+repositories. I think that our special needs brought us to Linux.
+Those who don't have such needs will hardly move to Linux.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Naturvernforbundet i Oslo bruker OpenStreetmap i sin kalender</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Naturvernforbundet_i_Oslo_bruker_OpenStreetmap_i_sin_kalender.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Naturvernforbundet_i_Oslo_bruker_OpenStreetmap_i_sin_kalender.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Veldig morsomt å se at
+<a href="http://naturvernforbundet.no/noa/">Naturvernforbundet Oslo og
+Akershus</a> bruker kart fra
+<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.no/">OpenStreetmap.org<a/> i
+<a href="http://naturvernforbundet.no/noa/bestill-markakalenderen-2013-article24039-1939.html">sine
+kalendere</a>. Vidar Gundersen i kartgruppa
+<a href="http://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/kart/2012-September/003696.html">forteller
+på den norske epostlisten</a> til prosjektet at hvert blad i
+kalenderen har et turforslag på baksiden, med kart fra OpenStreetmap.
+Tidligere kjøpte de visst kart fra kartverket, men nå slipper de
+det.</p>
+
+<p>Denne nyheten synes jeg er fantastisk bra, og jeg håper de får
+følge av flere, slik at det potensielle og fryktede inntektstapet for
+kartverket ved frigjøring av kartdata blir mindre, og forhåpentligvis
+til slutt så lite at frykten for å frigjøre data overvinnes.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>IETF activity to standardise video codec</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_activity_to_standardise_video_codec.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_activity_to_standardise_video_codec.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>After the
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_standardize_its_first_multimedia_codec__Opus.html">Opus
+codec made</a> it into <a href="http://www.ietf.org/">IETF</a> as
+<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716">RFC 6716</a>, I had a look
+to see if there is any activity in IETF to standardise a video codec
+too, and I was happy to discover that there is some activity in this
+area. A non-"working group" mailing list
+<a href="https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/video-codec">video-codec</a>
+was
+<a href="http://ietf.10.n7.nabble.com/New-Non-WG-Mailing-List-video-codec-Video-codec-BoF-discussion-list-td119548.html">created 2012-08-20</a>. It is intended to discuss the topic and if a
+formal working group should be formed.</p>
+
+<p>I look forward to see how this plays out. There is already
+<a href="http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/video-codec/current/msg00003.html">an
+email from someone</a> in the MPEG group at ISO asking people to
+participate in the ISO group. Given how ISO failed with OOXML and given
+that it so far (as far as I can remember) only have produced
+multimedia formats requiring royalty payments, I suspect
+joining the ISO group would be a complete waste of time, but I am not
+involved in any codec work and my opinion will not matter much.</p>
+
+<p>If one of my readers is involved with codec work, I hope she will
+join this work to standardise a royalty free video codec within
+IETF.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
<item>
<title>IETF standardize its first multimedia codec: Opus</title>
<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_standardize_its_first_multimedia_codec__Opus.html</link>
<li>Cranor, L.F. og Cytron, R.K., "Design and Implementation of a
Security-Conscious Electronic Polling System" Washington University
Computer Science Technical Report WUCS-96-02. February 1996
-http://www.cs.wustl.edu/cs/techreports/1996/wucs-96-02.ps.Z</li>
+<a href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/cs/techreports/1996/wucs-96-02.ps.Z">http://www.cs.wustl.edu/cs/techreports/1996/wucs-96-02.ps.Z</a></li>
<li>Det australske valgsystemet, inkludert kildekoden tilgjengelig som
-fri programvare http://www.elections.act.gov.au/Elecvote.html</li>
+fri programvare
+<a href="http://www.elections.act.gov.au/Elecvote.html">http://www.elections.act.gov.au/Elecvote.html</a></li>
<li>Smartmatics SAES voting system used in venesuela 2004
-http://www.smartmatic.com/solutions_03-1.htm</li>
+<a href="http://www.smartmatic.com/solutions_03-1.htm">http://www.smartmatic.com/solutions_03-1.htm</a></li>
<li>Blackboxvoting, interessegruppe i USA med fokus på valgfusk
-vha. elektroniske valgsystemer http://www.blackboxvoting.org/</li>
+vha. elektroniske valgsystemer <a href="http://www.blackboxvoting.org/">http://www.blackboxvoting.org/</a></li>
<li>VerifiedVoting, interessegruppe i USA med fokus på at også
elektroniske valgsystemer må være
-etterprøvbare. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/</li>
+etterprøvbare. <a href="http://www.verifiedvoting.org/">http://www.verifiedvoting.org/</a></li>
<li>Blue Screen Democracy - fri programvareprosjekt som har utviklet
elektronisk stemmegivingssystem
-http://bluescreen.sourceforge.net/</li>
+<a href="http://bluescreen.sourceforge.net/">http://bluescreen.sourceforge.net/</a></li>
<li>Indias elektroniske avstemmingssystem (Wikipedia)
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_voting_machines</li>
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_voting_machines">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_voting_machines</a></li>
<li>Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine av
Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex Halderman, og Edward
W. Felten. http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/
-http://coblitz.codeen.org:3125/itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/videos/ts-voting.wmv</li>
+<a href="http://coblitz.codeen.org:3125/itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/videos/ts-voting.wmv">http://coblitz.codeen.org:3125/itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/videos/ts-voting.wmv</a></li>
-<li>Was the 2004 Election Stolen? av Robert F. Kennedy
-Jr. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen</li>
+<li>Was the 2004 Election Stolen? av Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
+<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen">http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen</a></li>
<li>Styreframlegg om elektronisk votering ved
-UiO. http://www.admin.uio.no/kollegiet/moter/kart_prot2006/5/protokoll.xml
-http://www.admin.uio.no/kollegiet/moter/kart_prot2006/5/vsak-14.pdf
-http://www.admin.uio.no/kollegiet/moter/kart_prot2006/5/vsak-14-vedlegg.pdf</li>
+UiO. <a href="http://www.admin.uio.no/kollegiet/moter/kart_prot2006/5/protokoll.xml">http://www.admin.uio.no/kollegiet/moter/kart_prot2006/5/protokoll.xml</a>
+<a href="http://www.admin.uio.no/kollegiet/moter/kart_prot2006/5/vsak-14.pdf">http://www.admin.uio.no/kollegiet/moter/kart_prot2006/5/vsak-14.pdf</a>
+<a href="http://www.admin.uio.no/kollegiet/moter/kart_prot2006/5/vsak-14-vedlegg.pdf">http://www.admin.uio.no/kollegiet/moter/kart_prot2006/5/vsak-14-vedlegg.pdf</a></li>
<li>Elektroniske valg - muligheter, problemer og noen løsninger
Semesteroppgave i STV620 - Demokratiske valg
-http://www.afin.uio.no/forskning/notater/4_01.html</li>
+<a href="http://www.afin.uio.no/forskning/notater/4_01.html">http://www.afin.uio.no/forskning/notater/4_01.html</a></li>
-<li>NUUG - Norwegian Unix User Group http://www.nuug.no/</li>
+<li>NUUG - Norwegian Unix User Group
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">http://www.nuug.no/</a></li>
-<li>EFN - Elektronisk forpost Norge http://www.efn.no/</li>
+<li>EFN - Elektronisk forpost Norge
+<a href="http://www.efn.no/">http://www.efn.no/</a></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
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