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-               <title>How to figure out which RAID disk to replace when it fail</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_figure_out_which_RAID_disk_to_replace_when_it_fail.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Once in a while my home server have disk problems.  Thanks to Linux
-Software RAID, I have not lost data yet (but
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.raid/34532&quot;&gt;I was
-close&lt;/a&gt; this summer :).  But once a disk is starting to behave
-funny, a practical problem present itself.  How to get from the Linux
-device name (like /dev/sdd) to something that can be used to identify
-the disk when the computer is turned off?  In my case I have SATA
-disks with a unique ID printed on the label.  All I need is a way to
-figure out how to query the disk to get the ID out.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;After fumbling a bit, I
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-getting-scsi-ide-harddisk-information/&quot;&gt;found
-that hdparm -I&lt;/a&gt; will report the disk serial number, which is
-printed on the disk label.  The following (almost) one-liner can be
-used to look up the ID of all the failed disks:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-for d in $(cat /proc/mdstat |grep &#39;(F)&#39;|tr &#39; &#39; &quot;\n&quot;|grep &#39;(F)&#39;|cut -d\[ -f1|sort -u);
-do
-    printf &quot;Failed disk $d: &quot;
-    hdparm -I /dev/$d |grep &#39;Serial Num&#39;
-done
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Putting it here to make sure I do not have to search for it the
-next time, and in case other find it useful.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;At the moment I have two failing disk. :(&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-Failed disk sdd1:       Serial Number:      WD-WCASJ1860823
-Failed disk sdd2:       Serial Number:      WD-WCASJ1860823
-Failed disk sde2:       Serial Number:      WD-WCASJ1840589
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The last time I had failing disks, I added the serial number on
-labels I printed and stuck on the short sides of each disk, to be able
-to figure out which disk to take out of the box without having to
-remove each disk to look at the physical vendor label.  The vendor
-label is at the top of the disk, which is hidden when the disks are
-mounted inside my box.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I really wish the check_linux_raid Nagios plugin for checking Linux
-Software RAID in the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nagios-plugins.html&quot;&gt;nagios-plugins-standard&lt;/a&gt;
-debian package would look up this value automatically, as it would
-make the plugin a lot more useful when my disks fail.  At the moment
-it only report a failure when there are no more spares left (it really
-should warn as soon as a disk is failing), and it do not tell me which
-disk(s) is failing when the RAID is running short on disks.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Trenger en avtale med MPEG-LA for å publisere og kringkaste H.264-video?</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Trenger_en_avtale_med_MPEG_LA_for___publisere_og_kringkaste_H_264_video_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Trenger_en_avtale_med_MPEG_LA_for___publisere_og_kringkaste_H_264_video_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Trengs det avtale med MPEG-LA for å ha lovlig rett til å
+distribuere og kringkaste video i MPEG4 eller med videokodingen H.264?
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://webmink.com/essays/h-264/&quot;&gt;H.264 og MPEG4 er jo ikke en
+fri og åpen standard&lt;/a&gt; i henhold til
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fri_og__pen_standard__slik_Digistan_ser_det.html&quot;&gt;definisjonen
+til Digistan&lt;/a&gt;, så i enkelte land er det ingen tvil om at du må ha
+en slik avtale, men jeg må innrømme at jeg ikke vet om det også
+gjelder Norge.  Det ser uansett ut til å være en juridisk interessant
+problemstilling.  Men jeg tenkte her om dagen som så, at hvis det er
+nødvendig, så har store aktører som
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nrk.no/&quot;&gt;NRK&lt;/a&gt; og
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.regjeringen.no/&quot;&gt;regjeringen&lt;/a&gt; skaffet seg en
+slik avtale.  Jeg har derfor sendt forespørsel til begge (for
+regjeringen sin del er det Departementenes Servicesenter som gjør
+jobben), og bedt om kopi av eventuelle avtaler de har om bruk av MPEG
+og/eller H.264 med MPEG-LA eller andre aktører som opererer på vegne
+av MPEG-LA.  Her er kopi av eposten jeg har sendt til
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dss.dep.no/&quot;&gt;Departementenes Servicesenter&lt;/a&gt;.
+Forespørselen til NRK er veldig lik.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:18:33 +0200
+&lt;br&gt;From: Petter Reinholdtsen
+&lt;br&gt;To: postmottak@dss.dep.no
+&lt;br&gt;Subject: Innsynsbegjæring om MPEG/H.264-relaterte avtaler
+ 
+&lt;p&gt;Hei.  Jeg ber herved om innsyn og kopi av dokumenter i DSS relatert
+til avtaler rundt bruk av videoformatene MPEG og H.264.  Jeg er
+spesielt interessert i å vite om DSS har lisensavtale med MPEG-LA
+eller noen som representerer MPEG-LA i Norge.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;MPEG og H.264 er videoformater som brukes både til kringkasting
+(f.eks. i bakkenett og kabel-TV) og videopublisering på web, deriblant
+via Adobe Flash.  MPEG-LA, &amp;lt;URL:
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpeg-la.com/&quot;&gt;http://www.mpeg-la.com/&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;, er
+en organisasjon som har fått oppgaven, av de kjente rettighetshavere
+av immaterielle rettigheter knyttet til MPEG og H.264, å selge
+bruksrett for MPEG og H.264.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Via regjeringen.no kringkastes med MPEG og H.264-baserte
+videoformater, og dette ser ut til å være organisert av DSS.  Jeg
+antar dermed at DSS har avtale med en eller annen aktør om dette.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;F.eks. har Adobe Premiere Pro har følgende klausul i følge &amp;lt;URL:
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000101-264.html&quot;&gt;http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000101-264.html&lt;/a&gt;
+&amp;gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+
+  &lt;p&gt;6.17. AVC DISTRIBUTION. The following notice applies to software
+  containing AVC import and export functionality: THIS PRODUCT IS
+  LICENSED UNDER THE AVC PATENT PORTFOLIO LICENSE FOR THE PERSONAL AND
+  NON-COMMERCIAL USE OF A CONSUMER TO (a) ENCODE VIDEO IN COMPLIANCE
+  WITH THE AVC STANDARD (&quot;AVC VIDEO&quot;) AND/OR (b) DECODE AVC VIDEO THAT
+  WAS ENCODED BY A CONSUMER ENGAGED IN A PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL
+  ACTIVITY AND/OR AVC VIDEO THAT WAS OBTAINED FROM A VIDEO PROVIDER
+  LICENSED TO PROVIDE AVC VIDEO. NO LICENSE IS GRANTED OR SHALL BE
+  IMPLIED FOR ANY OTHER USE. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED
+  FROM MPEG LA L.L.C. SEE
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpegla.com&quot;&gt;http://www.mpegla.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Her er det kun &quot;non-commercial&quot; og &quot;personal and non-commercial&quot;
+aktivitet som er tillatt uten ekstra avtale med MPEG-LA.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Et annet tilsvarende eksempel er Apple Final Cut Pro, som har
+følgende klausul i følge &amp;lt;URL:
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/finalcutstudio2.pdf&quot;&gt;http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/finalcutstudio2.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
+&amp;gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+
+  &lt;p&gt;15. Merknad om H.264/AVC. Hvis Apple-programvaren inneholder
+  funksjonalitet for AVC-koding og/eller AVC-dekoding, krever
+  kommersiell bruk ekstra lisensiering og følgende gjelder:
+  AVC-FUNKSJONALITETEN I DETTE PRODUKTET KAN KUN ANVENDES AV
+  FORBRUKERE OG KUN FOR PERSONLIG OG IKKE- KOMMERSIELL BRUK TIL (i)
+  KODING AV VIDEO I OVERENSSTEMMELSE MED AVC-STANDARDEN (&quot;AVC-VIDEO&quot;)
+  OG/ELLER (ii) DEKODING AV AVC-VIDEO SOM ER KODET AV EN FORBRUKER TIL
+  PERSONLIG OG IKKE-KOMMERSIELL BRUK OG/ELLER DEKODING AV AVC-VIDEO
+  FRA EN VIDEOLEVERANDØR SOM HAR LISENS TIL Å TILBY
+  AVC-VIDEO. INFORMASJON OM ANNEN BRUK OG LISENSIERING KAN INNHENTES
+  FRA MPEG LA L.L.C. SE HTTP://WWW.MPEGLA.COM.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;p&gt;Tilsvarende gjelder for andre programvarepakker, kamera, etc som
+bruker MPEG og H.264, at en må ha en avtale med MPEG-LA for å ha lov
+til å bruke programmet/utstyret hvis en skal lage noe annet enn
+private filmer og i ikke-kommersiell virksomhet.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg er altså interessert i kopi av avtaler DSS har som gjør at en
+ikke er begrenset av de generelle bruksvilkårene som gjelder for
+utstyr som bruker MPEG og/eller H.264.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Nå venter jeg spent på svaret.  Jeg planlegger å blogge om svaret
+her.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Automatic proxy configuration with Debian Edu / Skolelinux</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_proxy_configuration_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_proxy_configuration_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;New in the Squeeze version of
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; is the
-ability for clients to automatically configure their proxy settings
-based on their environment.  We want all systems on the client to use
-the WPAD based proxy definition fetched from &lt;tt&gt;http://wpad/wpad.dat&lt;/tt&gt;, to
-allow sites to control the proxy setting from a central place and make
-sure clients do not have hard coded proxy settings.  The schools can
-change the global proxy setting by editing
-&lt;tt&gt;tjener:/etc/debian-edu/www/wpad.dat&lt;/tt&gt; and the change propagate
-to all Debian Edu clients in the network.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The problem is that some systems do not understand the WPAD system.
-In other words, how do one get from a WPAD file like this (this is a
-simple one, they can run arbitrary code):&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
-{
-   if (!isResolvable(host) ||
-       isPlainHostName(host) ||
-       dnsDomainIs(host, &quot;.intern&quot;))
-      return &quot;DIRECT&quot;;
-   else
-      return &quot;PROXY webcache:3128; DIRECT&quot;;
-}
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;to a proxy setting in the process environment looking like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-http_proxy=http://webcache:3128/
-ftp_proxy=http://webcache:3128/
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;To do this conversion I developed a perl script that will execute
-the javascript fragment in the WPAD file and return the proxy that
-would be used for
-&lt;tt&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.debian.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;,
-and insert this extracted proxy URL in &lt;tt&gt;/etc/environment&lt;/tt&gt; and
-&lt;tt&gt;/etc/apt/apt.conf&lt;/tt&gt;.  The perl script wpad-extract work just
-fine in Squeeze, but in Wheezy the library it need to run the
-javascript code is &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/631045&quot;&gt;no longer
-able to build&lt;/a&gt; because the C library it depended on is now a C++
-library.  I hope someone find a solution to that problem before Wheezy
-is frozen.  An alternative would be for us to rewrite wpad-extract to
-use some other javascript library currently working in Wheezy, but no
-known alternative is known at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This automatic proxy system allow the roaming workstation (aka
-laptop) setup in Debian Edu/Squeeze to use the proxy when the laptop
-is connected to the backbone network in a Debian Edu setup, and to
-automatically use any proxy present and announced using the WPAD
-feature when it is connected to other networks.  And if no proxy is
-announced, direct connections will be used instead.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Silently using a proxy announced on the network might be a privacy
-or security problem.  But those controlling DHCP and DNS on a network
-could just as easily set up a transparent proxy, and force all HTTP
-and FTP connections to use a proxy anyway, so I consider that
-distinction to be academic.  If you are afraid of using the wrong
-proxy, you should avoid connecting to the network in question in the
-first place.  In Debian Edu, the proxy setup is updated using dhcp and
-ifupdown hooks, to make sure the configuration is updated every time
-the network setup changes.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The WPAD system is documented in a
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-wrec-wpad-01&quot;&gt;IETF
-draft&lt;/a&gt; and a
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Autodiscovery_Protocol&quot;&gt;Wikipedia
-page&lt;/a&gt; for those that want to learn more.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Gatemagasinet =Oslo får konkurrent fra Folk er Folk</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gatemagasinet__Oslo_f_r_konkurrent_fra_Folk_er_Folk.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gatemagasinet__Oslo_f_r_konkurrent_fra_Folk_er_Folk.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Aftenposten melder i dag at selgerne av
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.erlikoslo.no/&quot;&gt;gatemagasinet =Oslo&lt;/a&gt; er
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Oslo-selgerne-irritert-pa-nytt-gatemagasin-6850970.html&quot;&gt;irritert
+på at det er kommet en konkurrent på banen&lt;/a&gt; fra organisasjonen
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://oslo.folkerfolk.no/&quot;&gt;Folk er Folk&lt;/a&gt;,
+som støtter “rumenerne”, de mest uglesette av tiggerne i Norge.  Min
+første tanke da jeg leste nyheten er at slik må =Oslo-selgerne tåle
+når de nekter &quot;rumenerne&quot; og andre utenlandske tiggere å selge
+gatemagasinet sitt.  Det ble rapportert for noen år siden at
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Ikke-rom-i-herberget-6677803.html&quot;&gt;utenlandske
+tiggere ikke var velkomne som selgere&lt;/a&gt;, og å opprette en konkurrent
+virker da for meg som et rasjonelt alternativ.  Og at &quot;rumerene&quot;
+utelukkes gjelder visst ikke bare i Oslo.  I Adresseavisen fant jeg en
+artikkel om at selgerne av
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gatemagasinetsorgenfri.no/&quot;&gt;gateavisen
+Sorgenfri&lt;/a&gt; i Trondheim også
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/trondheim/article1122005.ece?index=20&quot;&gt;utelukker
+utenlandske selgere&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Men situasjonen er visst ikke så rett frem som opprinnelige
+artikler kunne tyde på.  Mens jeg søkte opp gamle artikler og
+referanser om temaet, fant jeg et
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2008/07/29/542041.html&quot;&gt;leserbrev
+fra en av stifterne av =Oslo&lt;/a&gt;, som protesterte på
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2008/07/23/541530.html&quot;&gt;påstander
+fra likestillingsombudet om diskriminering&lt;/a&gt; og forteller at =Oslo
+krever at de som selger magasinet skal kunne kommunisere med kundene
+for å kunne representere magasinet utad, og at &quot;rumererne&quot; ikke
+ekskluderes for å være utlendinger men pga. at de ikke kan snakke
+norsk.  Det er jo ikke urimelig å kreve at en selger skal kunne
+kommunisere med kundene, men som kjøper har jeg ikke snakket så mye
+med =Oslo-selgerne at det ville vært et problem for meg om selgeren
+ikke kunne snakke norsk.  Jeg er dermed i tvil om hvorvidt
+argumentasjonen holder når effekten er at de mest uglesette tiggerne i
+Norge ekskluderes.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Uansett tror jeg ikke markedet for gatemagasiner i Oslo er mettet.
+Personlig kunne jeg godt tenkte meg å kjøpe flere, men gidder ikke
+kjøpe den samme utgaven av =Oslo flere ganger.  En konkurrent som Folk
+er Folk kan dermed ende opp med å gjøre markedet større i stedet for å
+spise av markedsandelene til =Oslo.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Axel Bojer</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Axel_Bojer.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I serien med intervjuer av folk i
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet har jeg
-fått en av oversetterne som har vært med siden starten i tale.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg heter Axel Bojer og er datalærer, tysklærer, oversetter med
-mere.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Tror jeg så en annonsering på nettet i slutten av 2001 og ville
-være med som oversetter.  Jeg kom med på en utviklersamling og
-prosjektet var da helt i starten.  Det var spennende å være med mens
-prosjektet vokste til og utviklet seg.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg har «alltid» vært språkinteressert og hadde nettopp startet med
-Linux og tror jeg tenkte det passet å bidra.  Var også glad for å få
-en Debian-distribusjon, og ville gjerne bruke den selv.  Til å begynne
-med brukte jeg først Mandrake og så Debian. Og siden jeg oppdaget at
-det ikke var noen mulighet for å bruke den som enkeltstående i lang
-tid, så gikk jeg etterhvert over til Kubuntu&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Løsningen er forholdsvis lett å sette opp, gratis, fri programvare
-og gjør det mulig å gjenbruke eldre maskiner.  Det fine med Debian er
-at det er stabilt og har en veldig stor mengde programmer. Jeg liker
-også apt.  :-) Jeg liker også friheten ved Linux og muligheten til å
-delta og forme sin egen datahverdag.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Skolelinux er for lite kjent og for sent ute med å gi ut nye
-versjoner.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Da jeg selv i hovedsak bruker Kubuntu, så kan jeg egentlig ikke
-svare så detaljert rundt ulempene med Skolelinux.  Hovedårsaken til at
-jeg bruker Kubuntu er nok at da vi begynte med det mener jeg det ikke
-var noen annen løsning.  «Vandrende arbeidsstasjon» mener jeg ikke
-fantes da.  Dessuten ville jeg ha siste versjon, da den KDE-versjonen
-som var i Skolelinux den gangen var en god del enklere (tror det var
-KDE 2) var dårligere i mine øyne enn versjon 3.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg bruker blant annet Kubuntu, LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Firefox,
-Kate, &lt;a href=&quot;http://comix.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;Comix&lt;/a&gt; og Konsole.  Og
-en hel haug andre ved behov :-)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Har oversatt Comix selv, men det er jo ikke skjedd noe med Comix
-siden 2009, så den er det nok bare jeg som har.  Om andre vil ha den
-gir jeg den gjerne videre.  Ser at noen har startet på
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://mcomix.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;MComix&lt;/a&gt; siden jeg så på så
-på dette sist, så nå er jeg igang med å teste og oversette den
-også.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
-skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det viktigste er å forankre beslutningen i kollegiet og med de som
-er ansvarlige for å vedlikeholde og bruke datamaskinene.  Flest mulig
-bør være med på å holde det (sosialt) vedlike, kjenne og støtte
-prinsippene. Som enkeltmannsprosjekt blir det lett veldig sårbart,
-særlig når (Skole)linux ennå i stor grad er en motkultur og ikke noe
-en stor nok andel av beslutningstakere, brukere osv kjenner til og
-bruker.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg tror det viktigste er å fortsette å holde fri programvare godt,
-oppdatert, minimere antall feil, ha en god kontakt med brukerne og
-attraktivt og spennende programmer. Beholde alt som er bra og ha det
-tilgjengelig samtidig som man tilbyr det nyeste og rareste for de som
-vil ha det.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>SQL-database med anbud publisert på Doffin</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SQL_database_med_anbud_publisert_p__Doffin.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SQL_database_med_anbud_publisert_p__Doffin.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.doffin.no/&quot;&gt;Doffin&lt;/a&gt; er det offentlige Norges
+portal for annonsering av anbudsutlysninger.  Nettstedet er mye brukt,
+men rådataene er ikke enkelt tilgjengelig for almenheten.  For å bøte
+på det har jeg som et &lt;a href=&quot;htt://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG-prosjekt&lt;/a&gt;
+laget en &lt;a href=&quot;http://scraperwiki.com/&quot;&gt;Scraperwiki&lt;/a&gt;-skraper som
+lager en
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/norwegian-doffin/&quot;&gt;SQL-database
+med nøkkelinformasjonen fra Doffin&lt;/a&gt;, slik at det er mulig å søke og
+analysere Doffin-oppføringene.  Det publiseres mellom 900-1500 anbud
+hver måned via Doffin.  Jeg har ingen konkrete planer for analyse, men
+håper enklere tilgjengelighet gjør at flere griper sjansen.  På sikt
+håper jeg å bruke denne databasen som grunnlag for å lage en database
+over anbudsdokumenter, som i dag ikke er tilgjengelig fra doffin, men
+må bestilles fra hver enkelt utlyser.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg var litt usikker på om det var rettighetsproblemer knyttet til
+skraping av informasjon fra Doffin, men ser i
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.doffin.no/sitehelp/help_terms.aspx&quot;&gt;vilkårene til
+Doffin&lt;/a&gt; følgende:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Opphavsrett mv&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Ved innleggig av kunngjøringer på Doffin aksepterer Oppdragsgiver
+at opphavsrett og andre rettigheter til materialet overføres til
+Fornyings- og administrasjonsdepartementet, eller den departementet
+utnevner.  Oppdragsgiver har imidlertid bruksrett til materialet, og
+kan benytte det til de formål de måtte ønske.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Hvis informasjonen er vernet av opphavsrettsloven (hvilket jeg
+tviler på, gitt lovens begrensninger om informasjon fra det
+offentlige), så er det FAD som har de immaterielle rettighetene.  FAD
+er en del av staten, som opererer på vegne av folket, og enhver borger
+skulle dermed ha rett til å videreformidle informasjonen.  Ingen av
+offentlighetslovens unntak kommer til anvendelse, i og med at
+informasjonen allerede er publisert.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Saving power with Debian Edu / Skolelinux using shutdown-at-night</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Saving_power_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_using_shutdown_at_night.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Saving_power_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_using_shutdown_at_night.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 5 Feb 2012 09:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Since the Lenny version of
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, a
-feature to save power have been included.  It is as simple as it is
-practical: Shut down unused clients at night, and turn them on again
-in the morning.  This is done using the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/shutdown-at-night.html&quot;&gt;shutdown-at-night&lt;/a&gt; Debian package.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;To enable this feature on a client, the machine need to be added to
-the netgroup shutdown-at-night-hosts.  For Debian Edu, this is done in
-LDAP, and once this is in place, the machine in question will check
-every hour from 16:00 until 06:00 to see if the machine is unused, and
-shut it down if it is.  If the hardware in question is supported by
-the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nvram-wakeup.html&quot;&gt;nvram-wakeup&lt;/a&gt;
-package, the BIOS is told to turn the machine back on around 07:00 +-
-10 minutes.  If this isn&#39;t working, one can configure wake-on-lan to
-try to turn on the client.  The wake-on-lan option is only documented
-and not enabled by default in Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;It is important to not turn all machines on at once, as this can
-blow a fuse if several computers are connected to the same fuse like
-the common setup for a classroom.  The nvram-wakeup method only work
-for machines with a functioning hardware/BIOS clock.  I&#39;ve seen old
-machines where the BIOS battery were dead and the hardware clock were
-starting from 0 (or was it 1990?) every boot.  If you have one of
-those, you have to turn on the computer manually.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The shutdown-at-night package is completely self contained, and can
-also be used outside the Debian Edu environment.  For those without a
-central LDAP server with netgroups, one can instead touch the file
-&lt;tt&gt;/etc/shutdown-at-night/shutdown-at-night&lt;/tt&gt; to enable it.
-Perhaps you too can use it to save some power?&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Debian Edu - some ideas for the future versions</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu___some_ideas_for_the_future_versions.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu___some_ideas_for_the_future_versions.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;During my work on
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.nb.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
+based on Squeeze&lt;/a&gt;, I came across some issues that should be
+addressed in the Wheezy release.  I finally found time to wrap up my
+notes and provide quick summary of what I found, with a bit
+explanation.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;We need to rewrite our package installation framework, as tasksel
+changed from using tasksel tasks to using meta packages (aka packages
+with dependencies like our education-* packages), and our installation
+system depend on tasksel tasks in
+/usr/share/tasksel/debian-edu-tasks.desc for package
+installation.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Enable Kerberos login for more services.  Now with the Kerberos
+foundation in place, we should use it to get single sign on with more
+services, and avoiding unneeded password / login questions.  We should
+at least try to enable it for these services:
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+  &lt;li&gt;CUPS for admins to add/configure printers and users when using
+    quotas.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Nagios for admins checking the system status.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;GOsa for admins updating LDAP and users changing their passwords.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;LDAP for admins updating LDAP.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Squid for users when exam mode / filtering is active.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;ssh for admins and users to save a password prompt.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;When we move GOsa to use Kerberos instead of LDAP bind to
+authenticate users, we should try to block or at least limit access to
+use LDAP bind for authentication, to ensure Kerberos is used when it
+is intended, and nothing fall back to using the less safe LDAP bind&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Merge debian-edu-config and debian-edu-install.  The split made
+sense when d-e-install did a lot more, but these days it is just an
+inconvenience when we update the debconf preseeding values.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Fix partman-auto to allow us to abort the installation before
+touching the disk if the disk is too small.  This is
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/653305&quot;&gt;BTS report #653305&lt;/a&gt; and the
+d-i developers are fine with the patch and someone just need to apply
+it and upload.  After this is done we need to adjust
+debian-edu-install to use this new hook.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Adjust to new LTSP framework (boot time config instead of install
+time config).  LTSP changed its design, and our hooks to install
+packages and update the configuration is most likely not going to work
+in Wheezy.
+
+&lt;li&gt;Consider switching to NBD instead of NFS for LTSP root, to allow
+the Kernel to cache files in its normal file cache, possibly speeding
+up KDE login on slow networks.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Make it possible to create expired user passwords that need to
+change on first login.  This is useful when handing out password on
+paper, to make sure only the user know the password.  This require
+fixes to the PAM handling of kdm and gdm.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Make GUI for adding new machines automatically from sitesummary.
+The current command line script is not very friendly to people most
+familiar with GUIs.  This should probably be integrated into GOsa to
+have it available where the admin will be looking for it..&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;We should find way for Nagios to check that the DHCP service
+actually is working (as in handling out IP addresses).  None of the
+Nagios checks I have found so far have been working for me.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;We should switch from libpam-nss-ldapd to sssd for all profiles
+using LDAP, and not only on for roaming workstations, to have less
+packages to configure and consistent setup across all profiles.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;We should configure Kerberos to update LDAP and Samba password
+when changing password using the Kerberos protocol.  The hook was
+requested in &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/588968&quot;&gt;BTS report
+#588968&lt;/a&gt; and is now available in Wheezy.  We might need to write a
+MIT Kerberos plugin in C to get this.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;We should clean up the set of applications installed by default.
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;reduce the number of chemistry visualisers&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;consider dropping xpaint&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;and probably more?&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Some hardware need external firmware to work properly.  This is
+mostly the case for WiFi network cards, but there are some other
+examples too.  For popular laptops to work out of the box, such
+firmware need to be installed from non-free, and we should provide
+some GUI to do this.  Ubuntu already have this implemented, and we
+could consider using their packages.  At the moment we have some
+command line script to do this (one for the running system, another
+for the LTSP chroot).&lt;/li&gt;
+
+
+&lt;li&gt;In Squeeze, we provide KDE, Gnome and LXDE as desktop options.  We
+should extend the list to Xfce and Sugar, and preferably find a way to
+install several and allow the admin or the user to select which one to
+use.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;The golearn tool from the goplay package make it easy to check out
+interesting educational packages.  We should work on the package
+tagging in Debian to ensure it represent all the useful educational
+packages, and extend the tool to allow it to use packagekit to install
+new applications with a simple mouse click.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;The Squeeze version got half a exam solution already in place,
+with the introduction of iptable based network blocking, but for it to
+be a complete exam solution the Squid proxy need to enable
+filtering/blocking as well when the exam mode is enabled.  We should
+implement a way to easily enable this for the schools that want it,
+instead of the &quot;it is documented&quot; method of today.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;A feature used in several schools is the ability for a teacher to
+&quot;take over&quot; the desktop of individual or all computers in the room.
+There are at least three implementations,
+&lt;a href=&quot;italc.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;italc&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itais.net/help/en/&quot;&gt;controlaula&lt;/a&gt; og
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.epoptes.org/&quot;&gt;epoptes&lt;/a&gt; and we should pick one of
+them and make it trivial to set it up in a school.  The challenges is
+how to distribute crypto keys and how to group computers in one room
+and how to set up which machine/user can control the machines in a
+given room.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Tablets and surf boards are getting more and more popular, and we
+should look into providing a good solution for integrating these into
+the Debian Edu network.  Not quite sure how.  Perhaps we should
+provide a installation profile with better touch screen support for
+them, or add some sync services to allow them to exchange
+configuration and data with the central server.  This should be
+investigated.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I guess we will discover more as we continue to work on the Wheezy
+version.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Third beta version of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 4 Feb 2012 13:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I am happy to announce that finally we managed today to wrap up and
-publish the third beta version of
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based
-on Squeeze.  If you want to test a LDAP backed Kerberos server with
-out of the box PXE configuration for running diskless machines and
-installing new machines, check it out.  If you need a software
-solution for your school, check it out too.  The full announcement is
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/02/msg00000.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
-on the project announcement list.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I am very happy to report these changes and improvements since
-beta2 (there are more, see announcement for full list):&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;It is now possible to change the pre-configured IP subnet from
-  10.0.0.0/8 to something else by using the subnet-change tool after
-  the installation.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Too full partitions are now automatically extended on the Main
-  Server, based on the rules specified in /etc/fsautoresizetab.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;The CUPS queues are now automatically flushed every night, and all
-  disabled queues are restarted every hour.  This should cut down on
-  the amount of manual administration needed for printers.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;The set of initial users have been changed.  Now a personal user
-  for the local system administrator is created during installation
-  instead of the previously created localadmin and super-admin users,
-  and this user is granted administrative privileges using group
-  membership.  This reduces the number of passwords one need to keep
-  up to date on the system.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The new main server seem to work so well that I am testing it as my
-private DNS/LDAP/Kerberos/PXE/LTSP server at home.  I will use it look
-for issues we could fix to polish Debian Edu even further before the
-final Squeeze release is published.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Next weekend the project organise a
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/01/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;developer
-gathering&lt;/a&gt; in Oslo.  We will continue the work on the Squeeze
-version, and start initial planning for the Wheezy version.  Perhaps I
-will see you there?&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Litt statistikk fra Offentlig Elektronisk postjournal</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Litt_statistikk_fra_Offentlig_Elektronisk_postjournal.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Litt_statistikk_fra_Offentlig_Elektronisk_postjournal.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;De siste månedene har jeg sammen med andre i NUUG jobbet med å
+gjøre det enklere å få innsyn i offentlige dokumenter, og dette
+inkluderer å gjøre postjournaler enklere tilgjengelig for maskinell
+analyse og søk.  I den forbindelse tok jeg i dag å tittet litt på
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oep.no/&quot;&gt;Offentlig Elektronisk Postjournal
+(OEP)&lt;/a&gt;, FAD/DIFIs fellesløsning for departementer og statlige
+etater.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Her er antall oppføringer pr. måned det siste året,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=htmltable&amp;name=postliste-oep&amp;query=select%20strftime(%22%25Y-%25m%22%2C%20%60recordpublishdate%60)%20as%20oeppubmonth%2C%20count(*)%20from%20%60swdata%60%20group%20by%20oeppubmonth%20order%20by%20oeppubmonth&quot;&gt;summert
+opp&lt;/a&gt; ved hjelp av
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/postliste-oep/&quot;&gt;en
+Scraperwiki-database&lt;/a&gt;.  Merk at denne Scraperwikien har
+ytelsesproblemer pga. mengden data. &lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot;&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;Måned&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Antall&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-07&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;164355&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-08&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;153662&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-09&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;173134&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-10&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;170665&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-11&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;198409&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-12&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;175908&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-01&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;206875&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-02&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;202862&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-03&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;204225&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-04&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;207931&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-05&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;223754&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Det er også interessant å se hvor ofte ulike etater sender inn sine
+journaloppføringer til OEP.  OEP inneholder en liste med sist
+innrapporteringsdato for alle som sender til OEP, og ved å se når og
+hvor ofte det blir sendt inn fra etatene kan
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=htmltable&amp;name=postliste-oep-deliverydates&amp;query=select%20agency%2C%0A(julianday(datetime(&#39;now&#39;))%20-%20%0A%20julianday(min(%60deliverydate%60)))%2Fcount(*)%20as%20dayfreq%2C%0A%20count(*)%0Afrom%20%60swdata%60%20group%20by%20agency%20order%20by%20dayfreq%20desc&quot;&gt;frekvensen
+beregnes&lt;/a&gt;.  Her er bunnlista, dvs. de som leverer sjeldnere enn hver 10.
+dag beregnet fra
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/postliste-oep-deliverydates/&quot;&gt;en
+Scraperwiki-database&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot;&gt;
+
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;Etat&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Frekvens&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Leveringer&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Norges geologiske undersøkelse&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;83.7527546296&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Medietilsynet&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;33.7527546296&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Departementenes servicesenter&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;23.8763773148&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Kunnskapsdepartementet&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;15.8763773148&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Kompetansesenter for distriktsutvikling&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;15.3763773148&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Toll- og avgiftsdirektoratet&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;15.3763773148&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Fredskorpset&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;12.5842515432&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Statens legemiddelverk&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;12.1881886574&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Utlendingsnemnda&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;11.5842515432&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Politidirektoratet&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;10.9175848765&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Skattedirektoratet&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;10.9175848765&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Statens innkrevingssentral&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;10.5842515432&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Barne-, ungdoms- og familiedirektoratet&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;10.2509182099&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Kunst i offentlige rom&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;10.2509182099&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+
+&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;En kan beregne lignende frekvenser ved å sammenligne
+journalføringsdato med publiseringsdato for hver enkelt oppføring i
+OEP, men den lenken legger jeg ikke ved her for å unngå at
+søkemotorroboter begynner å overbelaste Scraperwiki-databasen.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg har spurt Norges geologiske undersøkelse om hvorfor de leverer
+så sjelden, og det kommer av at de har problemer etter oppgradering av
+arkivsystemet sitt og jobber med å fikse det slik at de kan gå tilbake
+til å levere hver uke.  Har ikke undersøkt noen av de andre.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Handling non-free firmware in Debian Edu/Squeeze</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Handling_non_free_firmware_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Handling_non_free_firmware_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;With some computer hardware, one need non-free firmware blobs.
-This is the sad fact of todays computers.  In the next version of
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based
-on Squeeze, we provide several scripts and modifications to make
-firmware blobs easier to handle.  The common use case I run into is a
-laptop with a wireless network card requiring non-free firmware to
-work, but there are other use cases as well.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;First and foremost, Debian Edu provide ISO images for DVD and CD
-with all firmware packages in the Debian sections main and non-free
-included, to ensure debian-installer find and can install all of them
-during installation.  This take care firmware for network devices used
-by the installer when installing from from local media.  But for
-example multimedia devices are not activated in the installer and are
-not taken care of by this.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For non-network devices, we provide the script
-&lt;tt&gt;/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/auto-addfirmware&lt;/tt&gt; which
-search through the &lt;tt&gt;dmesg&lt;/tt&gt; output for drivers requesting extra
-firmware.  The firmware file name is looked up in the Contents-ARCH.gz
-file available in the package repository, and the packages providing
-the requested firmware file(s) is installed.  I have proposed to do
-something similar in debian-installer (BTS report
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/655507&quot;&gt;#655507&lt;/a&gt;), to allow PXE
-installs of Debian to handle firmware installation better.  Run the
-script as root from the command line to fetch and install the needed
-firmware packages.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Debian Edu provide PXE installation of Debian out of the box, and
-because some machines need firmware to get their network cards
-working, the installation initrd some times need extra firmware
-included to be able to install at all.  To fill the PXE installation
-initrd with extra firmware, the
-&lt;tt&gt;/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/pxe-addfirmware&lt;/tt&gt; script is
-provided.  Again, just run it as root on the command line to fill the
-PXE initrd with firmware packages.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Last, some LTSP clients might also need firmware to get their
-network cards working.  For this,
-&lt;tt&gt;/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/ltsp-addfirmware&lt;/tt&gt; is
-provided to update the LTSP initrd with firmware blobs.  It is used
-the same way as the other firmware related tools.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;At the moment, we do not run any of these during installation.  We
-do not know if this is acceptable for the local administrator to use
-non-free software, and it is their choice.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;We plan to release beta3 this weekend.  You might want to give it a
-try.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>TV with face recognition, for improved viewer experience</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/TV_with_face_recognition__for_improved_viewer_experience.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/TV_with_face_recognition__for_improved_viewer_experience.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 9 Jun 2012 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Slashdot got a story about Intel planning a
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/06/09/0012247/intel-to-launch-tv-service-with-facial-recognition-by-end-of-the-year&quot;&gt;TV
+with face recognition&lt;/a&gt; to recognise the viewer, and it occurred to
+me that it would be more interesting to turn it around, and do face
+recognition on the TV image itself.  It could let the viewer know who
+is present on the screen, and perhaps look up their credibility,
+company affiliation, previous appearances etc for the viewer to better
+evaluate what is being said and done.  That would be a feature I would
+be willing to pay for.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I would not be willing to pay for a TV that point a camera on my
+household, like the big brother feature apparently proposed by Intel.
+It is the telescreen idea fetched straight out of the book
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt&quot;&gt;1984 by George
+Orwell&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Skjermbilder fra nordsamisk installasjon av Skolelinux/Squeeze</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skjermbilder_fra_nordsamisk_installasjon_av_Skolelinux_Squeeze.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skjermbilder_fra_nordsamisk_installasjon_av_Skolelinux_Squeeze.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;For morro skyld har jeg gjennomført en nordsamisk installasjon for
-neste utgave av &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
-(Squeeze) og knipset skjermbilder av resultatet.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Som en kan se der er det noen oversettelser som mangler.  Det hadde
-vært hyggelig hvis alle tekstene som vises i Skolelinux-installasjonen
-ble oversatt til nordsamisk, men for å få det til må noen som forstår
-språket melde seg til dyst.  Det er mangel på nordsamiske oversettere
-av fri programvare.  Hvis noen starter raskt, så bør en rekke å
-fullføre Wheezy-utgaven før den gis ut. :)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Se &lt;a href=&quot;http://d-i.debian.org/l10n-stats/&quot;&gt;oversetterstatistikk for
-debian installer&lt;/a&gt; for detaljert status.  Jeg har tipset
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://lister.ping.uio.no/mailman/listinfo/i18n-sme&quot;&gt;epostlisten for samiskoversettelser&lt;/a&gt;,
-men det har vært veldig liten aktivitet der de siste årene.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/01-isomenu.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/01-isomenu.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/02-sme-lang.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/02-sme-lang.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/03-sme-place.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/03-sme-place.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/04-sme-keymap.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/04-sme-keymap.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/05-sme-profile.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/05-sme-profile.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/06-sme-autopart.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/06-sme-autopart.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/07-sme-popcon.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/07-sme-popcon.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/08-sme-rootpw1.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/08-sme-rootpw1.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/09-sme-rootpw2.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/09-sme-rootpw2.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/10-sme-firstuser.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/10-sme-firstuser.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/11-sme-firstusername.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/11-sme-firstusername.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/12-sme-firstuserpw1.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/12-sme-firstuserpw1.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/13-sme-firstuserpw2.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/13-sme-firstuserpw2.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/14-sme-part.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/14-sme-part.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/15-sme-debootstrap.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/15-sme-debootstrap.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/16-sme-tasksel.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/16-sme-tasksel.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/17-sme-wordlist.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/17-sme-wordlist.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/18-sme-tasksel.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/18-sme-tasksel.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/19-sme-ltsp.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/19-sme-ltsp.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/20-sme-grub.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/20-sme-grub.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/21-sme-finish-install.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/21-sme-finish-install.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/22-sme-finish-message.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/22-sme-finish-message.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Web service to look up HP and Dell computer hardware support status</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_service_to_look_up_HP_and_Dell_computer_hardware_support_status.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_service_to_look_up_HP_and_Dell_computer_hardware_support_status.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 6 Jun 2012 23:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html&quot;&gt;I
+reported how to get&lt;/a&gt; the support status out of Dell using an
+unofficial and undocumented SOAP API, which I since have found out was
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2012-February/045959.html&quot;&gt;discovered
+by Daniel De Marco in february&lt;/a&gt;.  Combined with my web scraping
+code for HP, Dell and IBM
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html&quot;&gt;from
+2009&lt;/a&gt;, I got inspired and wrote
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/&quot;&gt;a
+web service&lt;/a&gt; based on Scraperwiki to make it easy to look up the
+support status and get a machine readable result back.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is what it look like at the moment when asking for the JSON
+output:
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+% GET &lt;a href=&quot;https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&amp;vendor=Dell&amp;servicetag=2v1xwn1&quot;&gt;https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&amp;vendor=Dell&amp;servicetag=2v1xwn1&lt;/a&gt;
+supportstatus({&quot;servicetag&quot;: &quot;2v1xwn1&quot;, &quot;warrantyend&quot;: &quot;2013-11-24&quot;, &quot;shipped&quot;: &quot;2010-11-24&quot;, &quot;scrapestamputc&quot;: &quot;2012-06-06T20:26:56.965847&quot;, &quot;scrapedurl&quot;: &quot;http://143.166.84.118/services/assetservice.asmx?WSDL&quot;, &quot;vendor&quot;: &quot;Dell&quot;, &quot;productid&quot;: &quot;&quot;})
+%
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;It currently support Dell and HP, and I am hoping for help to add
+support for other vendors.  The python source is available on
+Scraperwiki and I welcome help with adding more features.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Setting up a new school with Debian Edu/Squeeze</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Setting_up_a_new_school_with_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Setting_up_a_new_school_with_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;The next version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
-/ Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; will include a new tool
-&lt;tt&gt;sitesummary2ldapdhcp&lt;/tt&gt;, which can be used to quickly set up all
-the computers in a school without much manual labour.  Here is a short
-summary on how to use it to set up a new school.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;First, install a combined Main Server and Thin Client Server as the
-central server in the network.  Next, PXE boot all the client machines
-as thin clients and wait 5 minutes after the last client booted to
-allow the clients to report their existence to the central server.  When
-this is done, log on to the central server and run
-&lt;tt&gt;sitesummary2ldapdhcp -a&lt;/tt&gt; in the &lt;tt&gt;konsole&lt;/tt&gt; to use the
-collected information to generate system objects in LDAP.  The output
-will look similar to this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-% sitesummary2ldapdhcp -a
-info: Updating machine tjener.intern [10.0.2.2] id ether-00:01:02:03:04:05.
-info: Create GOsa machine for auto-mac-00-01-02-03-04-06 [10.0.16.20] id ether-00:01:02:03:04:06.
-
-Enter password if you want to activate these changes, and ^c to abort.
-
-Connecting to LDAP as cn=admin,ou=ldap-access,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
-enter password: *******
-% 
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;After providing the LDAP administrative password (the same as the
-root password set during installation), the LDAP database will be
-populated with system objects for each PXE booted machine with
-automatically generated names.  The final step to set up the school is
-then to log into &lt;a href=&quot;https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/&quot;&gt;GOsa&lt;/a&gt;,
-the web based user, group and system administration system to change
-system names, add systems to the correct host groups and finally
-enable DHCP and DNS for the systems.  All clients that should be used
-as diskless workstations should be added to the workstation-hosts
-group.  After this is done, all computers can be booted again via PXE
-and get their assigned names and group based configuration
-automatically.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;We plan to release beta3 with the updated version of this feature
-enabled this weekend.  You might want to give it a try.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Update 2012-01-28: When calling sitesummary2ldapdhcp to add new
-hosts, one need to add the option -a.  I forgot to mention this in my
-original text, and have added it to the text now.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Kommentar til artikkel i Adresseavisa som omtaler FiksGataMi</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kommentar_til_artikkel_i_Adresseavisa_som_omtaler_FiksGataMi.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kommentar_til_artikkel_i_Adresseavisa_som_omtaler_FiksGataMi.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jun 2012 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg oppdaget nylig en
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/trondheim/article1831198.ece&quot;&gt;artikkel
+i Adresseavisa&lt;/a&gt; i Trondheim som nevner FiksGataMi, og der Trondheim
+kommune ser ut til å fortelle at de ikke følger forvaltningslovens
+krav ved mottak av meldinger sendt inn via FiksGataMi.  La derfor
+nettopp inn denne kommentaren til artikkelen:&lt;p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Her er en liten faktaoppdatering om FiksGataMi-tjenesten, da noen
+ser ut til å ha misforstått hvordan den fungerer.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;FiksGataMi er et privat initiativ opprettet og drevet av
+medlemsforeningen NUUG.  FiksGataMi tar imot meldinger om feil i
+offentlig infrastruktur, og sender meldingen skriftlig videre på vegne
+av innmelder til aktuell aktør i det offentlige, det være seg kommune,
+fylke eller vegvesenregion.  Offentlig etat blir valgt ut fra
+geografisk plassering og kategori valgt av innsender.  Offentlige
+etater er i følge forvaltningsloven pliktig å følge opp og besvare
+skriftlige henvendelser, og hvis noen av mottakerne ikke gjør dette
+kan en klage på lovbrudd i det offentlige.  FiksGataMi fungerer dermed
+som en slags epostklient for innbyggerne der kopi av innsendte
+meldinger gjøres tilgjengelig og knyttes til kartplassering for enkel
+gjenfinning.  Å sende inn nye problemrapporter via FiksGataMi er
+dermed ikke avhengig av at kommunen aktivt må følge med på meldinger
+hos FiksGataMi, da de får dem tilsendt på sine offisielle
+epostmottakspunkter.  Hvorvidt noe blir fikset og om innbyggerne er
+opp til mottaker av meldingene.  For Trondheim kommune er
+mottaksadressen bydrift.vegdrift@trondheim.kommune.no, en adresse jeg
+inntil jeg leste denne artikkelen trodde ble håndtert i henhold til
+forvaltningslovens krav.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Kan ellers fortelle at 57 kommuner lenker til FiksGataMi fra sine
+nettsider, og at 37 % (4182 av 11266 ) av problemrapportene sendt inn
+via FiksGataMi er markert som løst i løsningen.  Trondheim kommune har
+fått tilbud om å få rapportene levert på datamaskinlesbart format i
+stedet for epost, men har ikke takket ja så langt.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Vennlig hilsen Petter Reinholdtsen, en av NUUG-folkene bak FiksGataMi.no&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Det høres for meg ut som om innbyggerne i Trondheim burde klage på
+kommunens potensielle lovbrudd.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Paul Reidar Løsnesløkken</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Paul_Reidar_L_snesl_kken.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Paul_Reidar_L_snesl_kken.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I serien med intervjuer av folk i
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet, har jeg nå
-lyktes med å få tak i en skolemann som ikke er aktiv med utviklingen,
-men likevel har vært med nesten siden starten av prosjektet.  Jeg
-ønsker derfor velkommen til Paul Reidar Løsnesløkken, en mann med
-mange års erfaring i bruk av Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg driftet tidligere IKT løsningen for skolene i
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nord-odal.kommune.no/&quot;&gt;Nord-Odal&lt;/a&gt;.  I dag er jeg
-IKT-konsulent for hele kommunen og samarbeider med
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hedmarken-ikt.no/&quot;&gt;Hedmark-IKT&lt;/a&gt; for best mulig
-tjenester til kommunen. Jeg har bakgrunn som elektronikkreparatør og
-grunnskolelærer og har tatt en del fag innen IKT, i hovedsak
-driftsfag. IKT i Nord-Odal kommune blir i dag driftet av Hedmark IKT
-som er et samarbeid mellom Løten, Stange, Grue, Hamar, Kongsvinger og
-Nord-Odal. Jeg er fortsatt &quot;IKT-personen&quot; på skolene i kommunen og
-følger opp og gjør enkelte mindre endringer der.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Kommunen satset på Skolelinux i 2004.  Jeg var ikke med i
-beslutningsprosessen den gang, men ble likevel med fra starten når
-dette ble levert.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Fordelene med Skolelinux er rask oppstart, sentral drift av
-klientene, klienter som jobber raskt og effektivt, bedre
-funksjonalitet på eldre utstyr og en ganske god programpakke med fri
-programvare som følger med.  Løsningen med halvtykke klienter gjør at
-prosessering skjer lokalt med alltid ferske maskiner.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Skolelinux kan fungere godt på gammelt utstyr, men det er klart at
-utstyr også blir for gammelt selv for Skolelinux.  I forbindelese med
-at vi nylig fikk nye servere og ny installasjon kastet jeg ut ca 60
-klienter som fortsatt var i drift etter at de var kjøpt godt brukt i
-2004.  Noe var rundt 15 år gammelt, men var fortsatt i bruk. Noen
-klaget på at det nå gikk veldig tregt på en del pedagogiske nettsider
-med flash o.l. Det er fullt forståelig.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg fikk nylig et spørsmål fra ungdomsskolens rektor om jeg kunne
-legge inn &lt;a href=&quot;http://freemind.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;FreeMind&lt;/a&gt;, et
-tankekartprogram , på skolens elev-Windowsmaskiner. Lærerne hadde
-vært på kurs og ville ta dette i bruk. Skolen har ca halvparten av
-elevmaskinene på bærbare Windowsmaskiner. Da kunne jeg fortelle at
-dette programmet allerede lå inne på den nye Skolelinuxløsningen
-som nettopp var satt i drift, klart til bruk.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Vi har de bærbare maskinene på ungdomsskolen i domene med
-Skolelinux.  Dette fungerer også meget bra nå. Elevene får opp en
-midlertidig windowsprofil når de logger på.  Denne profilen slettes
-etter at de logger av, noe som medfører rene profiler hver gang de
-starter opp en maskin.  De må lagre i sin Skolelinprofil, noe som
-medfører at de får tak i sine filer uavhengig av om de starter en
-Windowsmaskin eller en Skolelinuxklient. Det er mye mindre trafikk i
-det trådløse nettet etter at ikke hele profiler blir lastet opp til de
-enkelte Windowsmaskinene og tilbake når man avslutter. Jeg vet ikke om
-dette er standardoppsett i Skolelinux, men slik er vårt oppsett
-nå.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Vi har i flere år satt opp vår løsning slik at skriverkøer slettes
-og skrivere startes hver natt.  Hyggelig å høre at dette nå skal bli
-en standard i Skolelinuxløsningen.  Dette har vært en god hjelp for
-oss.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Elevene er lite opptatt av om de jobber på en Skolelinux eller en
-Windowsmaskin bare de har de programmene de trenger og at det virker
-når det skal brukes. Vi kjører mest mulig de samme programmene på
-Windows som i Skolelinux, som f.eks Audacity og LibreOffice.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Lærere bruker hos oss Windows. Dette fordi de da selv har mer
-kontroll over sin maskin, kan bruke den overalt, og kan legge inn
-programmer selv når de trenger noe i forhold til kurs o.l de er
-på. Jeg tror lærernes selvstendighet her gjør dem tryggere på IKT-bruk
-generelt. Det at de av og til får opp advarsler og lignende gjør også
-at de må tenke igjennom og spørre om ting rundt datasikkerhet.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det er en del programmer vi bruker som ikke finnes for Linux.  Mest
-brukt er nok Photostory3 som brukes i mange sammenhenger, særlig på
-ungdomsskolen, bl.a. til å lage herbarier (plantesamling) .  Dette
-finnes gratis for Windows, men er ikke fri programvare.  Vi er opptatt
-av at programmer elevene bruker på skolen også kan brukes gratis
-hjemme. Det er også en del programmer som brukes til spesielle elever
-som bare går i Windows. Det er viktig med fokus på funksjoner og ikke
-på hvilket OS man bruker.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For oss er det kombinasjonen mellom Skolelinux og Windows som gir
-oss en god og hel løsning. Skolelinux er best der de er gode.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Selv er det LibreOffice jeg bruker til daglig.  Jeg bruker selv en
-Windowsmaskin. Jeg har benyttet en del fri programvare i forbindelse
-med sjekking av trafikk i nettverk, slik som Wireshark, men dette er
-jo ikke aktuelt for skolene. Jeg er generelt glad i programmer som
-fungerer på både Linux og Windows og gjerne MAC.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
-skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det er viktig at det benyttes programmer som elevene også kan ta i
-bruk hjemme.  Det skal da være enkelt, lovlig og gratis for
-elevene. Da er jeg ikke lenger veldig opptatt av om det kalles &quot;fri
-programvare&quot;.  For skolene tror jeg &quot;gratis&quot; og &quot;funksjonelt&quot; er bedre
-begreper enn &quot;fri&quot; i forhold til programmer.  De fleste skiller nok
-ikke mellom &quot;fri&quot; og &quot;gratis&quot;. Det er nå svært mange elever som
-benytter OpenOffice eller LibreOffice som sin primære kontorpakke
-hjemme.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Mike Gabriel</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jun 2012 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Back in 2010, Mike Gabriel showed up on the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
+mailing list.  He quickly proved to be a valuable developer, and
+thanks to his tireless effort we now have Kerberos integrated into the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
+Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; version.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My name is Mike Gabriel, I am 38 years old and live near Kiel,
+Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. I live together with a wonderful partner
+(Angela Fuß) and two own children and two bonus children (contributed
+by Angela).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;During the day I am part-time employed as a system administrator
+and part-time working as an IT consultant. The consultancy work
+touches free software topics wherever and whenever possible. During
+the nights I am a free software developer. In the gaps I also train in
+becoming an osteopath.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Starting in 2010 we (Andreas Buchholz, Angela Fuß, Mike Gabriel)
+have set up a free software project in the area of Kiel that aims at
+introducing free software into schools. The project&#39;s name is
+&quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot; (IT future for schools). The project links IT
+skills with communication skills.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;While preparing our own customised Linux distribution for
+&quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot; we were repeatedly asked if we really wanted to
+reinvent the wheel. What schools really need is already available,
+people said.  From this impulse we started evaluating other Linux
+distributions that target being used for school networks.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;At the end we short-listed two approaches and compared them: a
+commercial Linux distribution developed by a company in Bremen,
+Germany, and Skolelinux / Debian Edu. Between 12/2010 and 03/2011 we
+went to several events and met people being responsible for marketing
+and development of either of the distributions. Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu was by far much more convincing compared to the other product that
+got short-listed beforehand--across the full spectrum. What was most
+attractive for me personally: the perspective of collaboration within
+the developmental branch of the Debian Edu project itself.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;In parallel with this, we talked to many local and not-so-local
+people.  People teaching at schools, headmasters, politicians, data
+protection experts, other IT professionals.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;We came to two conclusions:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;First, a technical conclusion: What schools need is available in
+bits and pieces here and there, and none of the solutions really fit
+by 100%. Any school we have seen has a very individual IT setup
+whereas most of each school&#39;s requirements could mapped by a standard
+IT solution.  The requirement to this IT solution is flexibility and
+customisability, so that individual adaptations here and there are
+possible.  In terms of re-distributing and rolling out such a
+standardised IT system for schools (a system that is still to some
+degree customisable) there is still a lot of work to do here
+locally. Debian Edu / Skolelinux has been our choice as the starting
+point.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Second, a holistic conclusion: What schools need does not exist at
+all (or we missed it so far). There are several technical solutions
+for handling IT at schools that tend to make a good impression. What
+has been missing completely here in Germany, though, is the enrolment
+of people into using IT and teaching with IT. &quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot;
+tries to provide an approach for this.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Only some schools have some sort of a media concept which explains,
+defines and gives guidance on how to use IT in class. Most schools in
+Northern Germany do not have an IT service provider, the school&#39;s IT
+equipment is managed by one or (if the school is lucky) two (admin)
+teachers, most of the workload these admin teachers get done in there
+spare time.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;We were surprised that only a very few admin teachers were
+networked with colleagues from other schools. Basically, every school
+here around has its individual approach of providing IT equipment to
+teachers and students and the exchange of ideas has been quasi
+non-existent until 2010/2011.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Quite some (non-admin) teachers try to avoid using IT technology in
+class as a learning medium completely. Several reasons for this
+avoidance do exist.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;We discovered that no-one has ever taken a closer look at this
+social part of IT management in schools, so far. On our quest journey
+for a technical IT solution for schools, we discussed this issue with
+several teachers, headmasters, politicians, other IT professionals and
+they all confirmed: a holistic approach of considering IT management
+at schools, an approach that includes the people in place, will be new
+and probably a gain for all.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;There is a list of advantages: international context, openness to
+any kind of contributions, do-ocracy policy, the closeness to Debian,
+the different installation scenarios possible (from stand-alone
+workstation to complex multi-server sites), the transparency within
+project communication, honest communication within the group of
+developers, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Every coin has two sides:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Technically: &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/311188&quot;&gt;BTS issue
+#311188&lt;/a&gt;, tricky upgradability of a Debian Edu main server, network
+client installations on top of a plain vanilla Debian installation
+should become possible sometime in the near future, one could think
+about splitting the very complex package debian-edu-config into
+several portions (to make it easier for new developers to
+contribute).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Another issue I see is that we (as Debian Edu developers) should
+find out more about the network of people who do the marketing for
+Debian Edu / Skolelinux. There is a very active group in Germany
+promoting Skolelinux on the bigger Linux Days within Germany. Are
+there other groups like that in other countries? How can we bring
+these marketing people together (marketing group A with group B and
+all of them with the group of Debian Edu developers)? During the last
+meeting of the German Skolelinux group, I got the impression of people
+there being rather disconnected from the development department of
+Debian Edu / Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For my daily business, I do not use commercial software at all.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For normal stuff I use Iceweasel/Firefox, Libreoffice.org. For
+serious text writing I prefer LaTeX. I use gimp, inkscape, scribus for
+more artistic tasks. I run virtual machines in KVM and Virtualbox.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I am one of the upstream developers of X2Go. In 2010 I started the
+development of a Python based X2Go Client, called PyHoca-GUI.
+PyHoca-GUI has brought forth a Python X2Go Client API that currently
+is being integrated in Ubuntu&#39;s software center.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For communications I have my own Kolab server running using Horde
+as web-based groupware client. For IRC I love to use irssi, for Jabber
+I have several clients that I use, mostly pidgin, though. I am also
+the Debian maintainer of Coccinella, a Jabber-based interactive
+whiteboard.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My favourite terminal emulator is KDE&#39;s Yakuake.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Communicate, communicate, communicate. Enrol people, enrol people,
+enrol people.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Changing the default Iceweasel start page in Debian Edu/Squeeze</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Changing_the_default_Iceweasel_start_page_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Changing_the_default_Iceweasel_start_page_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;In the Squeeze version of
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; soon
-to be released, users of the system will get their default browser
-start page set from LDAP, allowing the system administrator to point
-all users to the school web page by updating one setting in LDAP.  In
-addition to setting the default start page when a machine boots, users
-are shown the same page as a welcome page when they log in for the
-first time.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The LDAP object dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no have an attribute
-labeledURI with &quot;http://www/ LDAP for Debian Edu/Skolelinux&quot; as the
-default content.  By changing this value to another URL, all users get
-to see the page behind this new URL.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;An easy way to update it is by using the ldapvi tool.  It can be
-called as &quot;&lt;tt&gt;ldapvi -ZD &#39;(cn=admin)&#39;&lt;/tt&gt;&#39; to update LDAP with the
-new setting.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;We have written the code to adjust the default start page and show
-the welcome page, and I wonder if there is an easier way to do this
-from within Iceweasel instead.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>SOAP based webservice from Dell to check server support status</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few years ago I wrote
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html&quot;&gt;how
+to extract support status&lt;/a&gt; for your Dell and HP servers.  Recently
+I have learned from colleges here at the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uio.no/&quot;&gt;University of Oslo&lt;/a&gt; that Dell have
+made this even easier, by providing a SOAP based web service.  Given
+the service tag, one can now query the Dell servers and get machine
+readable information about the support status.  This perl code
+demonstrate how to do it:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use SOAP::Lite;
+use Data::Dumper;
+my $GUID = &#39;11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111&#39;;
+my $App = &#39;test&#39;;
+my $servicetag = $ARGV[0] or die &quot;Please supply a servicetag. $!\n&quot;;
+my ($deal, $latest, @dates);
+my $s = SOAP::Lite
+    -&gt; uri(&#39;http://support.dell.com/WebServices/&#39;)
+    -&gt; on_action( sub { join &#39;&#39;, @_ } )
+    -&gt; proxy(&#39;http://xserv.dell.com/services/assetservice.asmx&#39;)
+    ;
+my $a = $s-&gt;GetAssetInformation(
+    SOAP::Data-&gt;name(&#39;guid&#39;)-&gt;value($GUID)-&gt;type(&#39;&#39;),
+    SOAP::Data-&gt;name(&#39;applicationName&#39;)-&gt;value($App)-&gt;type(&#39;&#39;),
+    SOAP::Data-&gt;name(&#39;serviceTags&#39;)-&gt;value($servicetag)-&gt;type(&#39;&#39;),
+);
+print Dumper($a -&gt; result) ;
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The output can look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+$VAR1 = {
+          &#39;Asset&#39; =&gt; {
+                     &#39;Entitlements&#39; =&gt; {
+                                       &#39;EntitlementData&#39; =&gt; [
+                                                            {
+                                                              &#39;EntitlementType&#39; =&gt; &#39;Expired&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;EndDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2009-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;Provider&#39; =&gt; &#39;&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;StartDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2006-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;DaysLeft&#39; =&gt; &#39;0&#39;
+                                                            },
+                                                            {
+                                                              &#39;EntitlementType&#39; =&gt; &#39;Expired&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;EndDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2009-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;Provider&#39; =&gt; &#39;&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;StartDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2006-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;DaysLeft&#39; =&gt; &#39;0&#39;
+                                                            },
+                                                            {
+                                                              &#39;EntitlementType&#39; =&gt; &#39;Expired&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;EndDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2007-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;Provider&#39; =&gt; &#39;&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;StartDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2006-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;DaysLeft&#39; =&gt; &#39;0&#39;
+                                                            }
+                                                          ]
+                                     },
+                     &#39;AssetHeaderData&#39; =&gt; {
+                                          &#39;SystemModel&#39; =&gt; &#39;GX620&#39;,
+                                          &#39;ServiceTag&#39; =&gt; &#39;8DSGD2J&#39;,
+                                          &#39;SystemShipDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2006-07-29T19:00:00-05:00&#39;,
+                                          &#39;Buid&#39; =&gt; &#39;2323&#39;,
+                                          &#39;Region&#39; =&gt; &#39;Europe&#39;,
+                                          &#39;SystemID&#39; =&gt; &#39;PLX_GX620&#39;,
+                                          &#39;SystemType&#39; =&gt; &#39;OptiPlex&#39;
+                                        }
+                   }
+        };
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I have not been able to find any documentation from Dell about this
+service outside the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://xserv.dell.com/services/assetservice.asmx?op=GetAssetInformation&quot;&gt;inline
+documentation&lt;/a&gt;, and according to
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://iboyd.net/index.php/2012/02/14/updated-dell-warranty-information-script/&quot;&gt;one
+comment&lt;/a&gt; it can have stability issues, but it is a lot better than
+scraping HTML pages. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Wonder if HP and other server vendors have a similar service.  If
+you know of one, drop me an email. :)&lt;/p&gt;

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