<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUGs_sp_rreunders_kelse_for_2012_endelig__pnet.html">NUUGs spørreundersøkelse for 2012 endelig åpnet</a></div>
- <div class="date">10th October 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Etter flere års pause fikk vi i NUUG endelig i dag
-<a href="http://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/interesserte/2012-October/000505.html">annonsert
-spørreundersøkelse</a> for medlemmer og likesinnede personer. Siste
-undersøkelse var i 2009, så det blir interessant å se hvordan svarene
-har endret seg siden da.</p>
-
-<p>Alle kan delta.
-<a href="https://nettskjema.uio.no/answer/45826.html">Skjemaet</a> har
-har 27 spørsmål og vil ta om lag fem minutt å fylle ut.</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/M__kommuner_journalf_re_og_svare_p__henvendelser_fra_innbyggerne_.html">Må kommuner journalføre og svare på henvendelser fra innbyggerne?</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 8th October 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Et av grunnlagene for
-<a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/">FiksGataMi</a> er at det offentlige
-er underlagt forvaltningsloven og må følge god forvaltningsskikk,
-hvilket for FiksGataMi betyr at de må ta imot henvendelser fra
-innbyggerne og svare på dem innen 30 dager eller sende den videre og
-orientere innbyggeren om dette hvis de mener henvendelsen er
-feilsendt. Det har vist seg at dette er ukjent for endel offentlige
-etater, og det var derfor interessant å se en artikkel i Bladet
-Vesterålen om at
-<a href="http://www.blv.no/lokalsider/lodingen/article6165681.ece">Lødingen
-kommune tiltrekker seg oppmerksomheten fra sivilombudsmannen for å ha
-nektet å svare på en skriftlig henvendelse (epost) fra en
-innbygger</a>. Ikke bare det, kommunen har latt være å journalføre
-henvendelsen.</p>
-
-<p>Slo opp saken i postjournalen til Sivilombudsmannen, og den har
-fått saksnummer 2012/1638 der. Så langt er det journalført fem brev i
-saken hos Sivilombudsmannen (dokumentdato, inn/ut, dokumenttittel og
-journal-ID):
-
-<table>
-<tr><td>2012-07-05</td><td>Inn</td><td>Sak om manglende svar fra Lødingen kmmune (2012/13059)</td></tr>
-<tr><td>2012-07-25</td><td>Ut</td><td>Foreleggelse - manglende svar fra Lødingen kommune (2012/13052)</td></tr>
-<tr><td>2012-07-27</td><td>Inn</td><td>Foreleggelse - Manglende svar fra Lødningen kommune - Foreløpig svar (2012/14432)</td></tr>
-<tr><td>2012-07-30</td><td>Ut</td><td>Vedrørnede utsatt frist - Manglende svar fra Lødingen kommune (2012/14445)</td></tr>
-<tr><td>2012-09-24</td><td>Ut</td><td>Påminnelse - Manglende svar fra Lødingen kommune (2012/17986)</td></tr>
-</table>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_hardware_dongles_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html">Lets make hardware dongles easier to use in Debian</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 9th January 2013</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>One thing that annoys me with Debian and Linux distributions in
+general, is that there is a great package management system with the
+ability to automatically install software packages by downloading them
+from the distribution mirrors, but no way to get it to automatically
+install the packages I need to use the hardware I plug into my
+machine. Even if the package to use it is easily available from the
+Linux distribution. When I plug in a LEGO Mindstorms NXT, it could
+suggest to automatically install the python-nxt, nbc and t2n packages
+I need to talk to it. When I plug in a Yubikey, it could propose the
+yubikey-personalization package. The information required to do this
+is available, but no-one have pulled all the pieces together.</p>
+
+<p>Some years ago, I proposed to
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg01206.html">use
+the discover subsystem to implement this</a>. The idea is fairly
+simple:
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>Add a desktop entry in /usr/share/autostart/ pointing to a program
+ starting when a user log in.</li>
+
+<li>Set this program up to listen for kernel events emitted when new
+ hardware is inserted into the computer.</li>
-<p>Det blir interessant å følge denne saken videre. Jeg har ikke
-rukket be om innsyn, men regner med at jeg tar opp tråden når den
-nærmer seg en konklusjon. Jeg håper konklusjonen blir at kommunen
-også må svare på henvendelser fra folk de ikke ønsker å ha kontakt
-med.</p>
+<li>When new hardware is inserted, look up the hardware ID in a
+ database mapping to packages, and take note of any non-installed
+ packages.</li>
+
+<li>Show a message to the user proposing to install the discovered
+ package, and make it easy to install it.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>I am not sure what the best way to implement this is, but my
+initial idea was to use dbus events to discover new hardware, the
+discover database to find packages and
+<a href="http://www.packagekit.org/">PackageKit</a> to install
+packages.</p>
+
+<p>Yesterday, I found time to try to implement this idea, and the
+draft package is now checked into
+<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/">the
+Debian Edu subversion repository</a>. In the process, I updated the
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/discover-data.html">discover-data</a>
+package to map the USB ids of LEGO Mindstorms and Yubikey devices to
+the relevant packages in Debian, and uploaded a new version
+2.2013.01.09 to unstable. I also discovered that the current
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/discover.html">discover</a>
+package in Debian no longer discovered any USB devices, because
+/proc/bus/usb/devices is no longer present. I ported it to use
+libusb as a fall back option to get it working. The fixed package
+version 2.1.2-6 is now in experimental (didn't upload it to unstable
+because of the freeze).</p>
+
+<p>With this prototype in place, I can insert my Yubikey, and get this
+desktop notification to show up (only once, the first time it is
+inserted):</p>
+
+<p align="center"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-01-09-hw-autoinstall.png"></p>
+
+<p>For this prototype to be really useful, some way to automatically
+install the proposed packages by pressing the "Please install
+program(s)" button should to be implemented.</p>
+
+<p>If this idea seem useful to you, and you want to help make it
+happen, please help me update the discover-data database with mappings
+from hardware to Debian packages. Check if 'discover-pkginstall -l'
+list the package you would like to have installed when a given
+hardware device is inserted into your computer, and report bugs using
+reportbug if it isn't. Or, if you know of a better way to provide
+such mapping, please let me know.</p>
+
+<p>This prototype need more work, and there are several questions that
+should be considered before it is ready for production use. Is dbus
+the correct way to detect new hardware? At the moment I look for HAL
+dbus events on the system bus, because that is the events I could see
+on my Debian Squeeze KDE desktop. Are there better events to use?
+How should the user be notified? Is the desktop notification
+mechanism the best option, or should the background daemon raise a
+popup instead? How should packages be installed? When should they
+not be installed?</p>
+
+<p>If you want to help getting such feature implemented in Debian,
+please send me an email. :)</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_is_your_local_library_collecting_the__wrong__computer_books_.html">Why is your local library collecting the "wrong" computer books?</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 3rd October 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>I just read the blog post from Tim Retout
-<a href="http://retout.co.uk/blog/2012/10/02/the-library-challenge">about
-the computer science book collection available in his local
-library</a>, and just wanted to share my comment on his theory about
-computer books becoming obsolete so soon. That is part of the reason
-why the selection is so sad in almost any local library (it is in mine
-too), but I believe the major contributing factor is that the people
-buying books to the library have no way to know a good and future
-computer classic from trash. And they need to know which one will
-become a classic in the future, as they would normally buy one of the
-recently published books.</p>
-
-<p>During my university years, I worked for a while at the university
-library, and even there the person in charge of buying computer
-related books (and in fact any natural science related book), did not
-know enough about computers to make a good educated guess. Once, just
-before Christmas, they had some leftover money on the book budget and
-I was asked if I could pick out a lot of computer books in the
-university book store, for the library to buy for their collection. I
-had a great time picking all the books I dreamt of buying and reading,
-and the books I knew were classics (like most of the
-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Richard_Stevens">Stevens
-collection</a>). I picked several of the generic O'Reilly books (ie
-documenting protocols, formats and systems, not specific versions of
-products) and stayed away from the 'teach yourself X in N days' class.
-I had a great time, and probably picked out more than a hundred books
-for the library that evening.</p>
-
-<p>The sad fact is that there is no way a overworked librarian is
-going to know that for example
-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice_of_Programming">The
-Practice of Programming</a> is a must-have in any computer library,
-and they will most of the time end up picking the wrong books to buy.
-Perhaps you can help your local library make better choices by giving
-the suggestions for books to get? I know they would love to hear from
-you, even if their budget might block them from getting your favourite
-book right away.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_IRC_channel_for_LEGO_designers_using_Debian.html">New IRC channel for LEGO designers using Debian</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 2nd January 2013</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>During Christmas, I have worked a bit on the Debian support for
+<a href="http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx">LEGO Mindstorm
+NXT</a>. My son and I have played a bit with my NXT set, and I
+discovered I had to build all the tools myself because none were
+already in Debian Squeeze. If Debian support for LEGO is something
+you care about, please join me on the IRC channel
+<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-lego">#debian-lego</a> (server
+irc.debian.org). There is a lot that could be done to improve the
+Debian support for LEGO designers. For example both CAD software
+and Mindstorm compilers are missing. :)</p>
+
+<p>Update 2012-01-03: A
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners">project page</a>
+including links to Lego related packages is now available.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_utgave__v2_1__av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen_gitt_ut.html">Ny utgave (v2.1) av den frie norske stavekontrollen gitt ut</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 2nd October 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>I helga fikk jeg endelig pakket sammen en ny versjon av den norske
-stavekontrollen, og gikk ut versjon 2.1 etter at det var gått fire og
-et halvt år siden sist. I dag fikk vi sendt ut annonseringen. Her er
-det vi sendte ut:</p>
-
-<p>Oslo, 2012-10-02</p>
-
-<p><strong>Pressemelding: Ny utgave av norsk stavekontroll med
-synonymordliste</strong></p>
-
-<p>Mer enn fire år etter at forrige utgave av den frie norske
-stavekontrollen ble utgitt, er en ny og forbedret versjon klar. Dette er
-noe utviklerne er veldig glade for.</p>
-
-<p>Den største endringen er at byggesystemet for stavekontrollen er
-skrevet om til å akseptere ord med bindestrek (f.eks. «e-post»). Litt
-over 10.000 slike ordformer er lagt til i orddatabasen. I tillegg er
-det kommet en del nye ord og rettelser rapportert inn av de frivillige
-som gjennomfører korrektur av orddatabasen i prosjektet. For å få
-fortgang i dette korrekturarbeidet er det fint med flere frivillige
-som kan bidra i prosjektet.</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
- - En god og fritt tilgjengelig stavekontroll er en viktig byggestein
- for å fremme bruken av korrekt norsk språk, sier prosjektdeltager
- Petter Reinholdtsen.
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>Takket være samarbeidet med synonymordlisteprosjektet er
-synonymordlista for bokmål tilgjengelig sammen med ordlista for bokmål
-og nynorsk. En synonymordliste for nynorsk er også med, men den er på
-prøvestadiet og meget liten.</p>
-
-<p>Stavekontrollpakken og synonymordlistene brukes i
-LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org, Koffice, Mozilla Thunderbird, Firefox og
-en rekke andre programmer, og på både Windows, Mac OS X, Linux og
-BSD.</p>
-
-<p>Det hele utgis under den frie lisensen GPL og kan fritt lastes ned
-fra prosjektsidene på
-<a href="http://no.speling.org">no.speling.org</a>. Ferdige pakker for
-LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org er også tilgjengelige fra samme sted.</p>
-
-<p>Det norske stavekontrollprosjektet er i kontakt med lignende
-prosjekter for blant annet å forbedre stavekontrollteknologien, å
-utveksle verktøy for vedlikehold av orddatabasen og å få tilgang til
-relevante datasett. Et av disse prosjektene er et separat prosjekt ved
-Sametinget som er i gang med å utvikle samisk stavekontroll for blant
-annet Microsoft Word og OpenOffice.org.</p>
-
-<p>Et søsterprosjekt for å lage grammatikk-kontroll for
-LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org er igangsatt, men har ennå ikke kommet
-langt nok til å brukes. Frivillige til å bidra i dette prosjektet er
-også svært velkomne.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Kontaktperson</strong></p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-Axel Bojer, prosjektdeltager
-<br>E-post: fri_programvare (at) bojer.no
-<br>Tlf: +47 954 32 417
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p><strong>Referanser</strong></p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenker_for_2013_01_01.html">Lenker for 2013-01-01</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 1st January 2013</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Her er noen lenker til tekster jeg har satt pris på å lese den
+siste måneden.</p>
<ul>
-<li>Det frie norske stavekontrollprosjektet for bokmål og nynorsk:
- <a href="http://no.speling.org">http://no.speling.org</a></li>
-<li>Samiske korrekturverktøy:
- <a href="http://divvun.no/">http://divvun.no/</a></li>
-<li>Ordlistene fra Norsk ordbank:
- <a href="http://www.edd.uio.no/prosjekt/ordbanken/">http://www.edd.uio.no/prosjekt/ordbanken/</a></li>
-<li>Last ned ordlistene:
- <a href="http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30577">http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30577</a>
- (PS: no_NO-pack2 for OOo 2.x))</li>
-</ul>
+<li>2012-12-07
+ <a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article262047.ece">Myter og
+ FUD om fri programvare</a> av min venn Christer Gundersen som
+ kommenterer noen av de påstandene som er spredt via Computerworld
+ Norge de siste månedene.</li>
-<p><strong>Fra NEWS-fila i kildekodepakken</strong></p>
+<li>BankID er et opplegg der utsteder (dvs. banken eller dens
+ leverandør) sitter på alt som trengs for å bruke BankID, men har
+ lovet å ikke bruke den unntatt på oppdrag fra deg. Det er greit nok
+ for banktjenester, der banken allerede har full kontroll over
+ resultatet, men problematisk når det gjelder tilgang til
+ helseopplysninger og avtaleinngåelse med andre enn banken. Jeg
+ håper protestene brer om seg.
-<p>Release 2.1 (2012-09-30)</p>
+ <ul>
-<ul>
+ <li>2012-12-11 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/BankID-blottlegger-helseopplysninger-7067148.html">BankID
+ blottlegger helseopplysninger</a></li>
+
+ <li>2012-12-07 <a href="http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.9695027">-
+ Helseopplysningene ikke sikre med Bank-ID</a></li>
+
+ <li>2012-12-07
+ <a href="https://www.bankid.no/Presse-og-nyheter/Nyhetsarkiv/2012/Papeker-alvorlige-men-kjente-utfordringer/">Påpeker
+ alvorlige, men kjente utfordringer</a> er den offisielle
+ holdningen til de som lager BankID.</li>
+
+ <li>2012-12-08
+ <a href="http://www.tnp.no/norway/panorama/3419-ntnu-researcher-warns-against-security-of-bank-id-password">NTNU
+ Researcher Warns against Security of Bank ID Password</a>
+
+ </ul>
+
+<li>2012-12-11 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Norske-elever-er-darligst-i-Europa-pa-algebra-7066752.html">Norske elever er dårligst i Europa på algebra</a>
+
+<li>2012-12-11
+ <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/Realfagsdodaren-7067173.html">Realfagsdødaren</a>
+
+<li>2012-12-21
+ <a href="http://www.bt.no/nyheter/innenriks/112/--Forventningene-er-for-hoye-2816450.html">-
+ Noen må bli skuffet</a> - Politiet i Bergen forteller hvor lavt de
+ prioriterer hverdagskriminalitet.</li>
+
+<li>2012-05-03
+ <a href="http://e24.no/jobb/kripos-ansatt-doemt-for-snoking-for-venn/20208585">
+ Kripos-ansatt dømt for snoking for venn</A> - viser hvor svak
+ reaksjonen blir når politiet misbruker innsamlet informasjon. En
+ forvarsel på konsekvensene av nasjonal brev- og besøkskontroll -
+ ofte kalt Datalagringsdirektivet.</li>
+
+<li>2012-12-14
+ <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/12/14/kultur/debatt/kronikk/jul/ensomhet/24838541/">Å
+ smøre en forskjell</a> - om ensomhet og jul.</li>
+
+<li>2012-12-18
+ <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/n-krise-av-gangen_-takk-7072452.html">Én
+ krise av gangen, takk!</a>
+
+
+<li>2012-12-17
+ <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/NAV-Et-mangehodet-monster--7072165.html">NAV:
+ Et mangehodet monster</a></li>
+
+<li>2011-01-12
+ <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/01/12/kultur/debatt/kronikk/personvern/15027203/">Pasienter
+ uten vern</a> - forteller litt om hvordan Norsk Pasientregister og
+ andre helseregister raderer bort pasienters privatsfære.</li>
+
+
+<li>2012-12-19
+ <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/Hvorfor-er-barnefamilier-fattige-7073951.html">Hvorfor
+ er barnefamilier fattige?</a></li>
+
+<li>2012-12-25
+ <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/spaltister/Den-skjulte-minoriteten--konservative-kristne-i-Norge-7075518.html">Den
+ skjulte minoriteten – konservative kristne i Norge</a> - kronikk av
+ Bjørn Stærk fra aftenposten</li>
+
+<li>2009-05-04
+ <a href="http://deltemeninger.no/-/bulletin/show/303429_folkebiblioteket-2-0?ref=checkpoint">Folkebiblioteket
+ 2.0</a> - Min venn Sturle om opphavsrett og Internett, i debatt med
+ Olav Torvund.</li>
-<li>Switch to new version scheme. Make new version 2.1, not 2.0.11. We do not
- release often enough to justify three digits.</li>
-<li>Switch build rules to build OOo v2 thesaurus files, as the v1 build rules
- no longer work. This require the libmythes-dev package on Debian.</li>
-<li>Introduce new Makefile variables hyphendir and thesdir to make it easier to
- control where to install these.</li>
-<li>Change script used to import from no.speling.org, to load new word
- boundaries if at least two people believed the boundaries was correct.</li>
-<li>Added word boundaries for several words (around 500 words) using the
- updated script.</li>
-<li>Imported thesarus for bokmål from synonymer.merg.net.</li>
-<li>Rewrote build rules to use = instead of - as combined word marker, thus
- allowing words like e-post.</li>
-<li>Imported a lot (around 10k words) of new words with dash (-) in them from
- no.speling.org now that it is handled by the build system.</li>
</ul>
+
+<p>Og et godt nytt år til dere alle!</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bankid">bankid</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/lenker">lenker</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>.
</div>
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<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUGs_h_ringsuttalelse_til_DIFIs_forslag_om___kaste_ut_ODF_fra_statens_standardkatalog.html">NUUGs høringsuttalelse til DIFIs forslag om å kaste ut ODF fra statens standardkatalog</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 1st October 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Som jeg
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/DIFI_foresl_r___kaste_ut_ODF_og_ta_inn_OOXML_fra_statens_standardkatalog.html">skrev
-i juni</a> har DIFI foreslått å fjerne krav om å bruke ODF til
-utveksling av redigerbare dokumenter med det offentlige, og
-derigjennom tvinge innbyggerne til å forholde seg til formatene til MS
-Office når en kommuniserer med det offentlige.</p>
-
-<p>I går kveld fikk vi i <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a>
-fullført vår høringsuttalelse og sendt den inn til DIFI. Du finner
-<a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/uttalelser/201209-forskrift-standardkatalog">uttalelsen
-på wikien</a>. Ta en titt. Fristen for å sende inn uttalelse var i
-går søndag, men en får kanskje sitt innspill med hvis en sender i
-dag.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Christmas_present_for_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu.html">A Christmas present for Skolelinux / Debian Edu</a></div>
+ <div class="date">28th December 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>I was happy to discover a few days ago that the
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux / Debian Edu</a>
+project also this year received a Christmas present from Another
+Agency in Trondheim. NOK 1000,- showed up on our donation account
+December 24th. I want to express our thanks for this very welcome
+present. As the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is very short on
+funding these days, and thus lack the money to do regular developer
+gatherings, this donation was most welcome. One developer gathering
+cost around NOK 15 000,-, so we need quite a lot more to keep the
+development pace we want. Thus, I hope their example this year is
+followed by many others. :)</p>
+
+<p>The public list of donors can be found on
+<a href="http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">the
+donation page</a> for the project, which also contain instructions if
+you want to donate to the project.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Etterpr_vbar_kunnskap_under_press__alle_mann_til_pumpene_.html">Etterprøvbar kunnskap under press, alle mann til pumpene!</a></div>
- <div class="date">24th September 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Jeg har sterk tro på vitenskap, som er et annet navn på
-etterprøvbar kunnskap, som metode for å sikre et velfungerende
-samfunn. Eller som en fantastisk reklamekampanje i England formulerte
-det, <a href="http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/3567">vitenskap
-flyr deg til månen, religion flyr deg inn i bygninger</a>. Men den
-vitenskapelige metode trenger folk med kunnskap, evne og vilje til å
-gjøre sitt beste, og settes under press av et samfunn som ikke akkurat
-belønner slike egenskaper. Her er noen skremmende og oppmuntrende
-lenker relatert jeg anbefaler alle å lese:</p>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/sep/21/drugs-industry-scandal-ben-goldacre">The
-drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal</a> - Ben Goldacre i The Guardian
-2012-09-21</li>
-
-<li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/09/22/kultur/debatt/debattinnlegg/utdanning/realfag/23535203/">Norsk
-skole har ikke realfag</a> - kronikk av Hege Tunstad i Dagbladet
-2012-09-22, basert på
-<a href="http://hegetunstad.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/norsk-skole-har-ikke-realfag/">en bloggpost 2012-09-19</a>.</li>
-
-<li><a href="http://tjomlid.com/2012/09/22/folkeopplysningen-alt-du-trenger-a-vite-om-homeopati/">Folkeopplysningen:
- Alt du trenger å vite om homeopati!</a> - bloggpost av Gunnar R. Tjomlid
- 2012-09-22.</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>Ingen tvil om at alle gode krefter må jobbe sammen for å sikre at
-vi vet hvor vi skal fly.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_backport_bitcoin_qt_version_0_7_2_2_to_Debian_Squeeze.html">How to backport bitcoin-qt version 0.7.2-2 to Debian Squeeze</a></div>
+ <div class="date">25th December 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Let me start by wishing you all marry Christmas and a happy new
+year! I hope next year will prove to be a good year.</p>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">Bitcoin</a>, the digital
+decentralised "currency" that allow people to transfer bitcoins
+between each other with minimal overhead, is a very interesting
+experiment. And as I wrote a few days ago, the bitcoin situation in
+<a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> is about to improve a bit.
+The <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/bitcoin">new debian source
+package</a> (version 0.7.2-2) was uploaded yesterday, and is waiting
+in <a href="http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html">the NEW queue</A>
+for one of the ftpmasters to approve the new bitcoin-qt package
+name.</p>
+
+<p>And thanks to the great work of Jonas and the rest of the bitcoin
+team in Debian, you can easily test the package in Debian Squeeze
+using the following steps to get a set of working packages:</p>
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+git clone git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/bitcoin
+cd bitcoin
+DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noupnp fakeroot debian/rules clean
+DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noupnp git-buildpackage --git-ignore-new
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>You might have to install some build dependencies as well. The
+list of commands should give you two packages, bitcoind and
+bitcoin-qt, ready for use in a Squeeze environment. Note that the
+client will download the complete set of bitcoin "blocks", which need
+around 5.6 GiB of data on my machine at the moment. Make sure your
+~/.bitcoin/ directory have lots of spare room if you want to download
+all the blocks. The client will warn if the disk is getting full, so
+there is not really a problem if you got too little room, but you will
+not be able to get all the features out of the client.</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&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Seventy_percent_done_with_Norwegian_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html">Seventy percent done with Norwegian docbook version of Free Culture</a></div>
- <div class="date">23rd September 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Since this summer, I have worked in my spare time on a Norwegian <a
-href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> version of the 2004 book <a
-href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> by Lawrence Lessig.
-The reason is that this book is a great primer on what problems exist
-in the current copyright laws, and I want it to be available also for
-those that are reluctant do read an English book.
-
-When I started, I
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html">called
-for volunteers</a> to help me, but too few have volunteered so far,
-and progress is a bit slow. Anyway, today I broken the 70 percent
-mark for the first rough translation. At the moment, less than 700
-strings (paragraphs, index terms, titles) are left to translate. With
-my current progress of 10-20 strings per day, it will take a while to
-complete the translation. This graph show the updated progress:</p>
-
-<img width="80%" align="center" src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png">
-
-<p>Progress have slowed down lately due to family and work
-commitments. If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out
-the project files currently available from
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>.</p>
-
-<p>If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
-the updated
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true">PDF</a>
-and
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true">EPUB</a>
-are published on github. The HTML version is published as well, but
-github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
-saw no point in linking to that version.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_word_on_bitcoin_support_in_Debian.html">A word on bitcoin support in Debian</a></div>
+ <div class="date">21st December 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>It has been a while since I wrote about
+<a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">bitcoin</a>, the decentralised
+peer-to-peer based crypto-currency, and the reason is simply that I
+have been busy elsewhere. But two days ago, I started looking at the
+state of <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/bitcoin">bitcoin in
+Debian</a> again to try to recover my old bitcoin wallet. The package
+is now maintained by a
+<a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-bitcoin/">team of
+people</a>, and the grunt work had already been done by this team. We
+owe a huge thank you to all these team members. :)
+But I was sad to discover that the bitcoin client is missing in
+Wheezy. It is only available in Sid (and an outdated client from
+backports). The client had several RC bugs registered in BTS blocking
+it from entering testing. To try to help the team and improve the
+situation, I spent some time providing patches and triaging the bug
+reports. I also had a look at the bitcoin package available from Matt
+Corallo in a
+<a href="https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin">PPA for
+Ubuntu</a>, and moved the useful pieces from that version into the
+Debian package.</p>
+
+<p>After checking with the main package maintainer Jonas Smedegaard on
+IRC, I pushed several patches into the collab-maint git repository to
+improve the package. It now contains fixes for the RC issues (not from
+me, but fixed by Scott Howard), build rules for a Qt GUI client
+package, konqueror support for the bitcoin: URI and bash completion
+setup. As I work on Debian Squeeze, I also created
+<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-bitcoin-devel/Week-of-Mon-20121217/000041.html">a
+patch to backport</a> the latest version. Jonas is going to look at
+it and try to integrate it into the git repository before uploading a
+new version to unstable.
+
+<p>I would very much like bitcoin to succeed, to get rid of the
+centralized control currently exercised in the monetary system. I
+find it completely unacceptable that the USA government is collecting
+transaction data for almost all international money transfers (most are done in USD and transaction logs shipped to the spooks), and
+that the major credit card companies can block legal money
+transactions to Wikileaks. But for bitcoin to succeed, more people
+need to use bitcoins, and more people need to accept bitcoins when
+they sell products and services. Improving the bitcoin support in
+Debian is a small step in the right direction, but not enough.
+Unfortunately the user experience when browsing the web and wanting to
+pay with bitcoin is still not very good. The bitcoin: URI is a step
+in the right direction, but need to work in most or every browser in
+use. Also the bitcoin-qt client is too heavy to fire up to do a
+quick transaction. I believe there are other clients available, but
+have not tested them.</p>
+
+<p>My
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Now_accepting_bitcoins___anonymous_and_distributed_p2p_crypto_money.html">experiment
+with bitcoins</a> showed that at least some of my readers use bitcoin.
+I received 20.15 BTC so far on the address I provided in my blog two
+years ago, as can be
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">seen
+on the blockexplorer service</a>. Thank you everyone for your
+donation. The blockexplorer service demonstrates quite well that
+bitcoin is not quite anonymous and untracked. :) I wonder if the
+number of users have gone up since then. If you use bitcoin and want
+to show your support of my activity, please send Bitcoin donations to
+the same address as last time,
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vitenskaplig_metode_i_politikken_.html">Vitenskaplig metode i politikken?</a></div>
- <div class="date">20th September 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Jeg ble for noen dager siden tipset om en rapport utarbeidet av
-Cabinet Office i England ved navn
-<a href="http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/test-learn-adapt-developing-public-policy-randomised-controlled-trials">Test,
-Learn, Adapt: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled
-Trials</a>, skrevet av blant annet Ben Goldacre (som jeg først ble
-klar over da han holdt et veldig interessant TED-foredrag med tittel
-<a href="http://archive.org/details/BenGoldacre_2011G">Battling bad
-science</a>). Rapporten handler om hvordan det offentlige burde bruke
-vitenskaplige metoder i større grad for å finne ut hvilke virkemidler
-som er mest effektive når en skal regulere samfunnet. Her er et sitat
-fra starten av rapporten:</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Piratpartiet_p__opphavs_retrett_.html">Piratpartiet på opphavs-retrett?</a></div>
+ <div class="date">19th December 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Jeg ble overrasket over å se at Piratpartiet i
+<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/Piratpartiet-stiller-til-Stortingsvalget-7073298.html">Aftenposten</a>
+er referert på følgende:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+Når det gjelder retten til opphavsrett for kulturproduktene, mener
+Piratpartiet av levetid + 14 år er tilfredsstillende.
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>Det betyr en vernetid langt ut over det kommersielle livet til de
+aller fleste opphavsrettsbeskyttede verker, og er i strid med slik i
+hvert fall jeg har tolket punkt 5 i
+<a href="http://people.opera.com/howcome/2012/piratpartiet/kjerneprogram.html">kjerneprogrammet
+til Piratpartiet</a>:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p><strong>5: Åndsverk og patenter: tilbake til start</strong></p>
+
+<table border="1">
+<tr><th>forslag:</th><td>14 års opphavsrett og ingen
+programvarepatenter</td></tr>
+
+<tr><th>grunn:</th><td>Den første loven om opphavsrett spesifiserte 14
+års vernetid. Senere har mediabransjens lobbyister stadig presset
+loven mot lengre vern, nå er det 70 år etter forfatters død. Dette
+gjør at mange verk glemmes og går tapt, noe som er skadelig for norsk
+språk og kultur. Vi til tilbake til start: 14 års
+vernetid. Patentloven sier klart at dataprogrammer ikke kan
+patenteres. Likevel klarer patentadvokater å lure gjennom
+programvarepatenter. Slike patenter gjør dingsene våre dyrere og kan i
+enkelte tilfelle stoppe dem helt.</th></tr>
+</table>
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>Den opprinnelige opphavsretten var på 14 år totalt, ikke 14 år
+etter opphavspersonens død. Jeg tenkte først dette kanskje var
+feilsitering fra Aftenposten, men jeg finner samme påstand i en <a
+href="http://piratpartietnorge.org/om-gramo-og-piratpolitikken/">bloggpost
+fra Geir Aaslid</a> på Piratpartietes offisielle nettsider. Der
+skriver han følgende:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+Hva vi gjør med opphavsretten er mer komplisert fordi den omfavner så
+mange bransjer, med ulike behov. Enhver reform er en forbedring men
+det er nærliggende å anta at en opphavsrett på levetid + 14 år er
+fullt ut tilfredstillende for musikk, film, litteratur og spill.
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>Det virker dermed på meg som om Piratpartiet allerede har gjort
+retrett fra sin beundringsverdige holdning om at det holdt med 14 års
+total vernetid, til sin nye som tar utgangspunkt i levetiden til
+opphavspersonen. Jeg håper det baserer seg på en misforståelse hos
+piratlederen som blir korrigert tilbake til 14 års total vernetid før
+partiet stiller til valg.</p>
+
+<p>Hvis du lurer på hvilke problemer lang vernetid bringer med seg,
+anbefaler jeg å lese boken <a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free
+Culture</a> av Lawrence Lessig. Jeg og en liten gruppe andre er igang
+med å
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">oversette
+boken til bokmål</a> og tar gjerne imot hjelp med oversettelse og
+korrekturlesing.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Oppdatering 2012-12-20</strong>: Oppdaget at
+<a href="http://piratpartietnorge.org/om-gramo-og-piratpolitikken/">bloggposten
+til Geir Aaslid</a> er endret siden i går, og nå inneholder følgende
+avsnitt i stedet for det jeg siterte over:</p>
<blockquote>
-<p>Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are the best way to determine
- wheather a policy is working. They are now used extensively in
- international development, medicine, and business to identify which
- policy, drug or sales method is most effective. They are also at
- the heart of the Behavioural Insights Team's methodology.</p>
-
-<p>However, RCTs are not rutinely used to test the effectiveness of
- public policy interventions in the UK. We think they should be.</p>
+Hva vi gjør med opphavsretten er mer komplisert fordi den omfavner så
+mange bransjer, med ulike behov. Enhver reform er en forbedring men
+det er nærliggende å anta at en opphavsrett lik levetiden, evt + 14 år
+er fullt ut tilfredstillende for mange skapere av musikk, film,
+litteratur og spill. Det er for det meste de store forlagene som er
+imot enhver reform.
</blockquote>
-<p>Her tror jeg også Norge har noe å lære. Det offentlige bruker mye
-penger på aktiviteter der det ikke er åpenbart (og heller ikke blir
-målt) at den reelle effekten er det en ønsker å oppnå. Ruters
-elektroniske billettsystem, NAV-reformen, økt bruk av penger på
-politiet og sykehussammenslåinger kommer meg i hug.</p>
+<p>I tillegg har det dukket opp en setning nederst "Dette dokumentet
+er et utkast til svar på et angrep på Piratpartiet fra Gramo. Det
+endrer seg derfor over tid og den endelige versjonen er det som blir
+publisert på Hardware.no", som tyder på at originalformuleringen ikke
+var veloverveid og sitatet i Aftenposten kanskje var basert på en
+misforståelse.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html">Debian Edu interview: Giorgio Pioda</a></div>
- <div class="date">17th September 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>After a long break in my row of interviews with people in the
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
-community, I finally found time to wrap up another. This time it is
-Giorgio Pioda, which showed up on the mailing list at the start of
-this year, asking questions and inspiring us to improve the first time
-administrators experience with Skolelinux. :) The interview was
-conduced in May, but I only found time to publish it now.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
-
-<p>I have a PhD in chemistry but since several years I work as teacher
-in secondary (15-18 year old students) and tertiary (a kind of "light"
-university) schools. Five years ago I started to manage a Learning
-Management Service server and slowly I got more and more involved with
-IT. 3 years ago the graduating schools moved completely to Linux and I
-got the head of the IT for this. The experience collected in chemistry
-labs computers (for example NMR analysis of protein folding) and in
-the IT-courses during university where sufficient to start. Self
-training is anyway very important</p>
-
-<p>I live in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, and the
-<a href="http://www.spse.ch/">SPSE school</a> (secondary) is a very
-special sport school for young people who try to became sport pro (for
-all sports, we have dozens of disciplines represented) and we are
-recognised by the Olympic Swiss Organisation.
-
-<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
-project?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Looking for Linux / Primary Domain Controller (PDC) I found it
-already several years ago. But since the system was still not
-Kerberized and since our schools relies strongly on laptops I didn't
-use it. I plan to introduce it in the next future, probably for the
-next school year, since the squeeze release solved this security
-hole.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Many. First of all there is a strong and living community that is
-very generous for help and hints. Chat help is crucial, together with
-the mailing list. Second. With Skolelinux you get an already well
-engineered platform and you don't have to start to build up your PDC
-and your clients from GNU/scratch; I've already done this once and I
-can tell it, it is hard. Third, since Skolelinux is a standard
-platform, it is way easier to educate other IT people and even if the
-head IT is sick another one could pick up the task without too much
-hassle.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>The only real problem I see is that it is a little too less
-flexible at client level. Debian stable is rocky and desirable, but
-there are many reasons that force for another choice. For example the
-need of new drivers for new PC, or the need for a specific OS for some
-devices that have specific software packages for another specific
-distribution (I have such a case for whiteboards that have only
-Ubuntu packages). Thus, I prepared compatibility packages educlient
-and eduroaming, hoping not to use them ;-)</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
-
-<p>I have a Debian Stable PDC at school (Kerberos, NIS, NFS) with
-mixed Debian and Ubuntu clients. If you think that this triad
-combination is exotic... well I discovered right yesterday that
-<a href="http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/Perceus-Report.html">Perceus</a>
-has the same...</p>
-
-<p>For myself I run Debian wheezy/sid, but this combination is good
-only I you have enough competence to fix stuff for yourself, if
-something breaks. Daily I use texmacs, gnumeric, a little bit of R
-statistics, kmplot, and less frequently OpenOffice.org.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
-get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
-
-<P>I think that the only real argument that school managers "hear" is
-cost reduction. They don't give too much weight on quality, stability,
-just because they are normally not open to change.</p>
-
-<p>Students adapts very quickly to GNU/Linux (and for them being able
-to switch between different OS is a plus value); teachers and managers
-don't.</p>
-
-<p>We decided to move to Linux because students at our school have own
-laptop and we have the responsibility to keep the laptop ready to use;
-we were really unsatisfied with Microsoft since every Monday we had 20
-machine to fix for viral infections... With Linux this has been
-reduced to zero, since people installs almost only from official
-repositories. I think that our special needs brought us to Linux.
-Those who don't have such needs will hardly move to Linux.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ledger___double_entry_accounting_using_text_based_storage_format.html">Ledger - double-entry accounting using text based storage format</a></div>
+ <div class="date">18th December 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>A few days ago I came across
+<a href="http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/hledger/">a blog post from Joey
+Hess</a> describing <a href="http://ledger-cli.org/">ledger</a> and
+hledger, a text based system for double-entry accounting. I found it
+interesting, as I am involved with several organizations where
+accounting is an issue, and I have not really become too friendly with
+the different web based systems we use. I find it hard to find what I
+look for in the menus and even harder try to get sensible data out of
+the systems. Ledger seem different. The accounting data is kept in
+text files that can be stored in a version control system, and there
+
+are at least <a href="https://github.com/ledger/ledger/wiki/Ports">five
+different implementations</a> able to read the format. An example
+entry look like this, and is simple enough that it will be trivial to
+generate entries based on CVS files fetched from the bank:</p>
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+2004-05-27 Book Store
+ Expenses:Books $20.00
+ Liabilities:Visa
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>The concept seemed interesting enough for me to check it out and
+look for others using it. I found blog posts from
+<a href="http://blog.spang.cc/posts/hledger_rocks_my_world/">Christine
+Spang</a>,
+<a href="http://bugsplat.info/2010-05-23-keeping-finances-with-ledger.html">Pete
+Keen</a>,
+<a href="http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2010/11/06/command-line-accounting-with-ledger-and-reckon/">Andrew
+Cantino</a> and
+<a href="http://blog.iphoting.com/blog/2012/11/29/command-line-double-entry-accounting/">Ronald
+Ip</a> describing how they use it, as well as a post from
+<a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/ledger-cli/r0oWjwbQ9Bo">Bradley
+M. Kuhn</a> at the Software Freedom Conservancy. All seemed like good
+recommendations fitting my need.</p>
+
+<p>The <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/ledger.html">ledger</a>
+package is available in Debian Squeeze, while the
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/haskell-hledger.html">hledger</a>
+package only is available in Debian Sid. As I use Squeeze, ledger
+seemed the best choice to get started.</p>
+
+<p>To get some real data to test on, I wrote a
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/tools/lodo2ledger">web scraper</a> for
+<a href="http://www.lodo.no/">LODO</a>, the accounting system used by
+the <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a> association, and started to
+play with the data set. I'm not really deeply into accounting, but I
+am able to get a simple balance and accounting status for example
+using the "<tt>ledger balance</tt>" command. But I will have to
+gather more experience before I know if the ledger way is a good fit
+for the organisations I am involved in.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Naturvernforbundet_i_Oslo_bruker_OpenStreetmap_i_sin_kalender.html">Naturvernforbundet i Oslo bruker OpenStreetmap i sin kalender</a></div>
- <div class="date">16th September 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Veldig morsomt å se at
-<a href="http://naturvernforbundet.no/noa/">Naturvernforbundet Oslo og
-Akershus</a> bruker kart fra
-<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.no/">OpenStreetmap.org<a/> i
-<a href="http://naturvernforbundet.no/noa/bestill-markakalenderen-2013-article24039-1939.html">sine
-kalendere</a>. Vidar Gundersen i kartgruppa
-<a href="http://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/kart/2012-September/003696.html">forteller
-på den norske epostlisten</a> til prosjektet at hvert blad i
-kalenderen har et turforslag på baksiden, med kart fra OpenStreetmap.
-Tidligere kjøpte de visst kart fra kartverket, men nå slipper de
-det.</p>
-
-<p>Denne nyheten synes jeg er fantastisk bra, og jeg håper de får
-følge av flere, slik at det potensielle og fryktede inntektstapet for
-kartverket ved frigjøring av kartdata blir mindre, og forhåpentligvis
-til slutt så lite at frykten for å frigjøre data overvinnes.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/61_kommuner_lenker_n__til_FiksGataMi_fra_sine_nettsider.html">61 kommuner lenker nå til FiksGataMi fra sine nettsider</a></div>
+ <div class="date">11th December 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>For noen dager siden omfavnet nok en kommune NUUGs
+<a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/">FiksGataMi</a>. Med 61 kommuner
+som lenker til FiksGataMi fra sine hjemmesider er «markedsandelen» 14%
+(av 429 kommuner). Siden
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/59_kommuner_omfavner_n__FiksGataMi.html">siste
+oppdatering i november</a> har kommunene Re og Vågsøy kommet til og
+slår følge med kommunene Askim, Askøy, Audnedal, Aure, Balestrand,
+Bærum, Eide, Farsund, Flekkefjord, Folldal, Gran, Grue, Hadsel,
+Halden, Halsa, Hamar, Hobøl, Holtålen, Hægebostad, Høyanger,
+Kongsberg, Kristiansund, Kvinesdal, Kviteseid, Levanger, Lindesnes,
+Luster, Lyngdal, Løten, Mandal, Marnardal, Moss, Namsos, Nissedal,
+Nordreisa, Randaberg, Rindal, Sel, Sirdal, Skiptvet, Sortland,
+Spydeberg, Stange, Stjørdal, Stord, Søgne, Sør-Odal, Tolga, Trysil,
+Tynset, Tysvær, Ullensvang Herad, Utsira, Vennesla, Verdal, Vågan,
+Vågå, Våler og Åseral. Oppdatert liste er tilgjengelig fra
+<a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/fiksgatami/positivemottakere">NUUGs
+wiki</a>. Kartet er dog ikke oppdatert med de siste kommunene.</p>
+
+<p>Kanskje du bør høre med din kommune om de vil bli mer aktive
+brukere av FiksGataMi? Se
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/40_kommuner_lenker_n__til_FiksGataMi_fra_sine_nettsider___gj_r_din_.html">en
+tidligere bloggpost</a> med tips om hvordan det kan gjøres.</p>
+
+<p>I snitt rapporteres det nå via FiksGataMi ca. 60 meldinger fra
+innbyggerne i uka om feil på offentlig infrastruktur.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Scripting_the_Cerebrum_bofhd_user_administration_system_using_XML_RPC.html">Scripting the Cerebrum/bofhd user administration system using XML-RPC</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 6th December 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Where I work at the <a href="http://www.uio.no/">University of
+Oslo</a>, we use the
+<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/cerebrum/">Cerebrum user
+administration system</a> to maintain users, groups, DNS, DHCP, etc.
+I've known since the system was written that the server is providing
+an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML-RPC">XML-RPC</a> API, but
+I have never spent time to try to figure out how to use it, as we
+always use the bofh command line client at work. Until today. I want
+to script the updating of DNS and DHCP to make it easier to set up
+virtual machines. Here are a few notes on how to use it with
+Python.</p>
+
+<p>I started by looking at the source of the Java
+<a href="http://cerebrum.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cerebrum/trunk/cerebrum/clients/jbofh/">bofh
+client</a>, to figure out how it connected to the API server. I also
+googled for python examples on how to use XML-RPC, and found
+<a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XML-RPC-HOWTO/xmlrpc-howto-python.html">a
+simple example in</a> the XML-RPC howto.</p>
+
+<p>This simple example code show how to connect, get the list of
+commands (as a JSON dump), and how to get the information about the
+user currently logged in:</p>
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import getpass
+import xmlrpclib
+server_url = 'https://cerebrum-uio.uio.no:8000';
+username = getpass.getuser()
+password = getpass.getpass()
+server = xmlrpclib.Server(server_url);
+#print server.get_commands(sessionid)
+sessionid = server.login(username, password)
+print server.run_command(sessionid, "user_info", username)
+result = server.logout(sessionid)
+print result
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>Armed with this knowledge I can now move forward and script the DNS
+and DHCP updates I wanted to do.</p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sysadmin">sysadmin</a>.
</div>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (167)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (21)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture (10)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/frikanalen">frikanalen (9)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju (32)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/lenker">lenker (6)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (219)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug (148)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn (6)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern (61)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot (5)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (28)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/skepsis">skepsis (4)</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (39)</a></li>
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