- <title>Free software archive system Nikita now able to store documents</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_software_archive_system_Nikita_now_able_to_store_documents.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2017 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>The <a href="https://github.com/hiOA-ABI/nikita-noark5-core">Nikita
-Noark 5 core project</a> is implementing the Norwegian standard for
-keeping an electronic archive of government documents.
-<a href="http://www.arkivverket.no/arkivverket/Offentlig-forvaltning/Noark/Noark-5/English-version">The
-Noark 5 standard</a> document the requirement for data systems used by
-the archives in the Norwegian government, and the Noark 5 web interface
-specification document a REST web service for storing, searching and
-retrieving documents and metadata in such archive. I've been involved
-in the project since a few weeks before Christmas, when the Norwegian
-Unix User Group
-<a href="https://www.nuug.no/news/NOARK5_kjerne_som_fri_programvare_f_r_epostliste_hos_NUUG.shtml">announced
-it supported the project</a>. I believe this is an important project,
-and hope it can make it possible for the government archives in the
-future to use free software to keep the archives we citizens depend
-on. But as I do not hold such archive myself, personally my first use
-case is to store and analyse public mail journal metadata published
-from the government. I find it useful to have a clear use case in
-mind when developing, to make sure the system scratches one of my
-itches.</p>
-
-<p>If you would like to help make sure there is a free software
-alternatives for the archives, please join our IRC channel
-(<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nikita"">#nikita on
-irc.freenode.net</a>) and
-<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/nikita-noark">the
-project mailing list</a>.</p>
-
-<p>When I got involved, the web service could store metadata about
-documents. But a few weeks ago, a new milestone was reached when it
-became possible to store full text documents too. Yesterday, I
-completed an implementation of a command line tool
-<tt>archive-pdf</tt> to upload a PDF file to the archive using this
-API. The tool is very simple at the moment, and find existing
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonds">fonds</a>, series and
-files while asking the user to select which one to use if more than
-one exist. Once a file is identified, the PDF is associated with the
-file and uploaded, using the title extracted from the PDF itself. The
-process is fairly similar to visiting the archive, opening a cabinet,
-locating a file and storing a piece of paper in the archive. Here is
-a test run directly after populating the database with test data using
-our API tester:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote><pre>
-~/src//noark5-tester$ ./archive-pdf mangelmelding/mangler.pdf
-using arkiv: Title of the test fonds created 2017-03-18T23:49:32.103446
-using arkivdel: Title of the test series created 2017-03-18T23:49:32.103446
-
- 0 - Title of the test case file created 2017-03-18T23:49:32.103446
- 1 - Title of the test file created 2017-03-18T23:49:32.103446
-Select which mappe you want (or search term): 0
-Uploading mangelmelding/mangler.pdf
- PDF title: Mangler i spesifikasjonsdokumentet for NOARK 5 Tjenestegrensesnitt
- File 2017/1: Title of the test case file created 2017-03-18T23:49:32.103446
-~/src//noark5-tester$
-</pre></blockquote></p>
-
-<p>You can see here how the fonds (arkiv) and serie (arkivdel) only had
-one option, while the user need to choose which file (mappe) to use
-among the two created by the API tester. The <tt>archive-pdf</tt>
-tool can be found in the git repository for the API tester.</p>
-
-<p>In the project, I have been mostly working on
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/noark5-tester">the API
-tester</a> so far, while getting to know the code base. The API
-tester currently use
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS">the HATEOAS links</a>
-to traverse the entire exposed service API and verify that the exposed
-operations and objects match the specification, as well as trying to
-create objects holding metadata and uploading a simple XML file to
-store. The tester has proved very useful for finding flaws in our
-implementation, as well as flaws in the reference site and the
-specification.</p>
-
-<p>The test document I uploaded is a summary of all the specification
-defects we have collected so far while implementing the web service.
-There are several unclear and conflicting parts of the specification,
-and we have
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/noark5-tester/tree/master/mangelmelding">started
-writing down</a> the questions we get from implementing it. We use a
-format inspired by how <a href="http://www.opengroup.org/austin/">The
-Austin Group</a> collect defect reports for the POSIX standard with
-<a href="http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mantis.html">their
-instructions for the MANTIS defect tracker system</a>, in lack of an official way to structure defect reports for Noark 5 (our first submitted defect report was a <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/noark5-tester/blob/master/mangelmelding/sendt/2017-03-15-mangel-prosess.md">request for a procedure for submitting defect reports</a> :).
-
-<p>The Nikita project is implemented using Java and Spring, and is
-fairly easy to get up and running using Docker containers for those
-that want to test the current code base. The API tester is
-implemented in Python.</p>
+ <title>Debian used in the subway info screens in Oslo, Norway</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_used_in_the_subway_info_screens_in_Oslo__Norway.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_used_in_the_subway_info_screens_in_Oslo__Norway.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 2 Mar 2018 13:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Today I was pleasantly surprised to discover my operating system of
+choice, Debian, was used in the info screens on the subway stations.
+While passing Nydalen subway station in Oslo, Norway, I discovered the
+info screen booting with some text scrolling. I was not quick enough
+with my camera to be able to record a video of the scrolling boot
+screen, but I did get a photo from when the boot got stuck with a
+corrupt file system:
+
+<p align="center"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg"><img align="center" width="40%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg" alt="[photo of subway info screen]"></a></p>
+
+<p>While I am happy to see Debian used more places, some details of the
+content on the screen worries me.</p>
+
+<p>The image show the version booting is 'Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid',
+indicating that this is based on code taken from Debian Unstable/Sid
+after Debian Etch (version 4) was released 2007-04-08 and before
+Debian Lenny (version 5) was released 2009-02-14. Since Lenny Debian
+has released version 6 (Squeeze) 2011-02-06, 7 (Wheezy) 2013-05-04, 8
+(Jessie) 2015-04-25 and 9 (Stretch) 2017-06-15, according to
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history">a Debian
+version history on Wikpedia</a>. This mean the system is running
+around 10 year old code, with no security fixes from the vendor for
+many years.</p>
+
+<p>This is not the first time I discover the Oslo subway company,
+Ruter, running outdated software. In 2012,
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Er_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_uten_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_.html">I
+discovered the ticket vending machines were running Windows 2000</a>,
+and this was
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fortsatt_ingen_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_for_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_.html">still
+the case in 2016</a>. Given the response from the responsible people
+in 2016, I would assume the machines are still running unpatched
+Windows 2000. Thus, an unpatched Debian setup come as no surprise.</p>
+
+<p>The photo is made available under the license terms
+<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons
+4.0 Attribution International (CC BY 4.0)</a>.</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">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>