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<title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from February 2009</title>
<description>Entries from February 2009</description>
- <link>../../../</link>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/</link>
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<title>Intellektuelt privilegium - et bedre IP-begrep</title>
- <link>../../../Intellektuelt_privilegium___et_bedre_IP_begrep.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">../../../Intellektuelt_privilegium___et_bedre_IP_begrep.html</guid>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intellektuelt_privilegium___et_bedre_IP_begrep.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intellektuelt_privilegium___et_bedre_IP_begrep.html</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 1 Feb 2009 15:06:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description>
-<p>Ofte brukes intellektuell eiendom som samlebegrep for opphavsrett,
+ <description><p>Ofte brukes intellektuell eiendom som samlebegrep for opphavsrett,
patenter, varemerker og forretningshemmeligheter. Problemet med dette
begrepet er at det er svært misvisende. For det første er ingen av de
begrensede monopolene det her er snakk om som kan kalles eiendom, og
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<title>Norge trenger en personvernforening</title>
- <link>../../../Norge_trenger_en_personvernforening.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">../../../Norge_trenger_en_personvernforening.html</guid>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norge_trenger_en_personvernforening.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norge_trenger_en_personvernforening.html</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 1 Feb 2009 18:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description>
-<p>De siste årene har jeg forsøkt å få liv i
+ <description><p>De siste årene har jeg forsøkt å få liv i
<a href="http://www.personvern.no/">foreningen Personvern i Norge</a>. Norge
trenger en organisasjon som jobber med å sette personvern på agendaen
og som kan være en motvekt til de mange som gjerne raderer bort
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<title>Min reprap tar sakte form</title>
- <link>../../../Min_reprap_tar_sakte_form.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">../../../Min_reprap_tar_sakte_form.html</guid>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Min_reprap_tar_sakte_form.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Min_reprap_tar_sakte_form.html</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description>
-<p>Min reprap begynner å ta form. Den er nå kommet så langt at den er
+ <description><p>Min reprap begynner å ta form. Den er nå kommet så langt at den er
blitt en kubisk ramme. Z-aksen er montert men ikke kalibrert, og det
hele er klart for litt enkel testing. Har møtt på to problemer som
blokkerer videre montering, men har oppnått kontakt med Audun Vaaler
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<title>Første vellykkede videostrøm fra NUUG</title>
- <link>../../../F__rste_vellykkede_videostr__m_fra_NUUG.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">../../../F__rste_vellykkede_videostr__m_fra_NUUG.html</guid>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/F_rste_vellykkede_videostr_m_fra_NUUG.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/F_rste_vellykkede_videostr_m_fra_NUUG.html</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description>
-<p>Jeg ble glad for å se under
+ <description><p>Jeg ble glad for å se under
<a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20090210-compiz/">gårdagens
medlemsmøte</a> i NUUG Oslo at utsending av live-video fra møtet
fungerte for første gang. Forrige gang ble det ved en teknisk tabbe
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<title>Endelig er Debian Lenny gitt ut</title>
- <link>../../../Endelig_er_Debian_Lenny_gitt_ut.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">../../../Endelig_er_Debian_Lenny_gitt_ut.html</guid>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Endelig_er_Debian_Lenny_gitt_ut.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Endelig_er_Debian_Lenny_gitt_ut.html</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description>
-<p>Endelig er <a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a>
+ <description><p>Endelig er <a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a>
<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090214">Lenny</a> gitt ut.
Et langt steg videre for Debian-prosjektet, og en rekke nye
programpakker blir nå tilgjengelig for de av oss som bruker den
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<title>Kart over overvåkningskamera i Norge</title>
- <link>../../../Kart_over_overv__kningskamera_i_Norge.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">../../../Kart_over_overv__kningskamera_i_Norge.html</guid>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kart_over_overv_kningskamera_i_Norge.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kart_over_overv_kningskamera_i_Norge.html</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description>
-<p>I regi av
+ <description><p>I regi av
<a href="http://www.personvern.no/">personvernforeningen</a> har jeg
startet på
<a href="http://personvern.no/wiki/index.php/Kameraovervåkning">et
om et kamera er registrert etter lovens krav eller ikke. Pr. nå er
22 kamera i Oslo registrert, og det trengs flere til å registrere
alle. Informasjonen registreres direkte inn i <a
-href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">OpenStreetmap</a>, sa hentes det
+href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">OpenStreetmap</a>, så hentes det
automatisk over i spesialkartet.</p>
</description>
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<title>Using bar codes at a computing center</title>
- <link>../../../Using_bar_codes_at_a_computing_center.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">../../../Using_bar_codes_at_a_computing_center.html</guid>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_bar_codes_at_a_computing_center.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_bar_codes_at_a_computing_center.html</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description>
-<p>At work with the University of Oslo, we have several hundred computers
+ <description><p>At work with the University of Oslo, we have several hundred computers
in our computing center. This give us a challenge in tracking the
location and cabling of the computers, when they are added, moved and
removed. Some times the location register is not updated when a
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<title>Checking server hardware support status for Dell, HP and IBM servers</title>
- <link>../../../Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">../../../Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html</guid>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description>
-<p>At work, we have a few hundred Linux servers, and with that amount
+ <description><p>At work, we have a few hundred Linux servers, and with that amount
of hardware it is important to keep track of when the hardware support
contract expire for each server. We have a machine (and service)
register, which until recently did not contain much useful besides the
parsing could be done using nice libraries, but did not want to
introduce more dependencies. This is the current incarnation:</p>
-<p><pre>
+<pre>
use LWP::Simple;
use POSIX;
use WWW::Mechanize;
if ( $model =~ m/^Dell / ) {
# fetch website from Dell support
- my $url = "http://support.euro.dell.com/support/topics/topic.aspx/emea/shared/support/my_systems_info/no/details?c=no&cs=nodhs1&l=no&s=dhs&ServiceTag=$serial";
+ my $url = "http://support.euro.dell.com/support/topics/topic.aspx/emea/shared/support/my_systems_info/no/details?c=no&amp;cs=nodhs1&amp;l=no&amp;s=dhs&amp;ServiceTag=$serial";
my $webpage = get($url);
return undef unless ($webpage);
my @lines = split(/\n/, $webpage);
foreach my $line (@lines) {
next unless ($line =~ m/Beskrivelse/);
- $line =~ s/<[^>]+?>/;/gm;
- $line =~ m%;(\d{2})/(\d{2})/(\d{4});+(\d{2})/(\d{2})/(\d{4});%g;
- my $start = "$3-$1-$2";
- my $end = "$6-$4-$5";
- $str = "$start -> $end";
+ $line =~ s/&lt;[^>]+?>/;/gm;
+ $line =~ s/^.+?;(Beskrivelse;)/$1/;
+
+ my @f = split(/\;/, $line);
+ @f = @f[13 .. $#f];
+ my $lastend = "";
+ while ($f[3] eq "DELL") {
+ my ($type, $startstr, $endstr, $days) = @f[0, 5, 7, 10];
+
+ my $start = POSIX::strftime("%Y-%m-%d",
+ localtime(str2time($startstr)));
+ my $end = POSIX::strftime("%Y-%m-%d",
+ localtime(str2time($endstr)));
+ $str .= "$type $start -> $end ";
+ @f = @f[14 .. $#f];
+ $lastend = $end if ($end gt $lastend);
+ }
my $today = POSIX::strftime("%Y-%m-%d", localtime(time));
tag_machine_unsupported($machine)
- if ($end lt $today);
+ if ($lastend lt $today);
}
} elsif ( $model =~ m/^HP / ) {
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
# Next step is screen scraping
my $content = $mech->content();
- $content =~ s/<[^>]+?>/;/gm;
+ $content =~ s/&lt;[^>]+?>/;/gm;
$content =~ s/\s+/ /gm;
$content =~ s/;\s*;/;;/gm;
$content =~ s/;[\s;]+/;/gm;
if ($end lt $today);
}
} elsif ( $model =~ m/^IBM / ) {
+ # This code ignore extended support contracts.
my ($producttype) = $model =~ m/.*-\[(.{4}).+\]-/;
- if ($producttype && $serial) {
+ if ($producttype &amp;&amp; $serial) {
my $content =
- get("http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/warranty?action=warranty&brandind=5000008&Submit=Submit&type=$producttype&serial=$serial");
+ get("http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/warranty?action=warranty&amp;brandind=5000008&amp;Submit=Submit&amp;type=$producttype&amp;serial=$serial");
if ($content) {
- $content =~ s/<[^>]+?>/;/gm;
+ $content =~ s/&lt;[^>]+?>/;/gm;
$content =~ s/\s+/ /gm;
$content =~ s/;\s*;/;;/gm;
$content =~ s/;[\s;]+/;/gm;
}
return $str;
}
-</pre></p>
+</pre>
<p>Here are some examples on how to use the function, using fake
serial numbers. The information passed in as arguments are fetched
from dmidecode.</p>
-<p><pre>
+<pre>
print get_support_info("hp.host", "HP ProLiant BL460c G1", "1234567890"
"447707-B21");
print get_support_info("dell.host", "Dell Inc. PowerEdge 2950", "1234567");
print get_support_info("ibm.host", "IBM eserver xSeries 345 -[867061X]-",
"1234567");
-</pre></p>
+</pre>
<p>I would recommend this approach for tracking support contracts for
-everyone with more than a new computers to administer. :)</p>
+everyone with more than a few computers to administer. :)</p>
+
+<p>Update 2009-03-06: The IBM page do not include extended support
+contracts, so it is useless in that case. The original Dell code do
+not handle extended support contracts either, but has been updated to
+do so.</p>
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