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- <title>Norwegian citizens now required by law to give their fingerprint to the police</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_citizens_now_required_by_law_to_give_their_fingerprint_to_the_police.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_citizens_now_required_by_law_to_give_their_fingerprint_to_the_police.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2015 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>5 days ago, the Norwegian Parliament decided, unanimously, that all
-citizens of Norway, no matter if they are suspected of something
-criminal or not, are
-<a href="https://www.holderdeord.no/votes/1430838871e">required to
-give fingerprints to the police</a> (vote details from Holder de
-ord). The law make it sound like it will be optional, but in a few
-years there will be no option any more. The ID will be required to
-vote, to get a bank account, a bank card, to change address on the
-post office, to receive an electronic ID or to get a drivers license
-and many other tasks required to function in Norway. The banks plan
-to stop providing their own ID on the bank cards when this new
-national ID is introduced, and the national road authorities plan to
-change the drivers license to no longer be usable as identity cards.
-In effect, to function as a citizen in Norway a national ID card will
-be required, and to get it one need to provide the fingerprints to
-the police.</p>
-
-<p>In addition to handing the fingerprint to the police (which
-promised to not make a copy of the fingerprint image at that point in
-time, but say nothing about doing it later), a picture of the
-fingerprint will be stored on the RFID chip, along with a picture of
-the face and other information about the person. Some of the
-information will be encrypted, but the encryption will be the same
-system as currently used in the passports. The codes to decrypt will
-be available to a lot of government offices and their suppliers around
-the globe, but for those that do now know anyone in those circles it
-is good to know that
-
-<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/nov/17/news.homeaffairs">the
-encryption is already broken</a>. And they
-<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2215057/wireless/bad-guys-could-read-rfid-passports-at-217-feet--maybe-a-lot-more.html">can
-be read from 70 meters away</a>. This can be mitigated a bit by
-keeping it in a Faraday cage (metal box or metal wire container), but
-one will be required to take it out of there often enough to expose
-ones private and personal information to a lot of people that have no
-business getting access to that information.</p>
-
-<p>The new Norwegian national IDs are a vehicle for identity theft,
-and I feel sorry for us all having politicians accepting such invasion
-of privacy without any objections. So are the Norwegian passports,
-but it has been possible to function in Norway without those so far.
-That option is going away with the passing of the new law. In this, I
-envy the Germans, because for them it is optional how much biometric
-information is stored in their national ID.</p>
-
-<p>And if forced collection of fingerprints was not bad enough, the
-information collected in the national ID card register can be handed
-over to foreign intelligence services and police authorities, "when
-extradition is not considered disproportionate".</p>
+ <title>French edition of Lawrence Lessigs book Cultura Libre on Amazon and Barnes & Noble</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_edition_of_Lawrence_Lessigs_book_Cultura_Libre_on_Amazon_and_Barnes___Noble.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_edition_of_Lawrence_Lessigs_book_Cultura_Libre_on_Amazon_and_Barnes___Noble.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2016 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>A few weeks ago the French paperback edition of Lawrence Lessigs
+2004 book Cultura Libre was published. Today I noticed that the book
+is now available from book stores. You can now buy it from
+<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Libre-French-Lawrence-Lessig/dp/8269018260">Amazon</a>
+($19.99),
+<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/culture-libre-lawrence-lessig/1123776705">Barnes
+& Noble</a> ($?) and as always from
+<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html">Lulu.com</a>
+($19.99). The revenue is donated to the Creative Commons project. If
+you buy from Lulu.com, they currently get $10.59, while if you buy
+from one of the book stores most of the revenue go to the book store
+and the Creative Commons project get much (not sure how much
+less).</p>
+
+<p>I was a bit surprised to discover that there is a kindle edition
+sold by Amazon Digital Services LLC on Amazon. Not quite sure how
+that edition was created, but if you want to download a electronic
+edition (PDF, EPUB, Mobi) generated from the same files used to create
+the paperback edition, they are
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">available
+from github</a>.</p>
</description>
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- <title>What would it cost to store all phone calls in Norway?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_would_it_cost_to_store_all_phone_calls_in_Norway_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_would_it_cost_to_store_all_phone_calls_in_Norway_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 1 May 2015 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Many years ago, a friend of mine calculated how much it would cost
-to store the sound of all phone calls in Norway, and came up with the
-cost of around 20 million NOK (2.4 mill EUR) for all the calls in a
-year. I got curious and wondered what the same calculation would look
-like today. To do so one need an idea of how much data storage is
-needed for each minute of sound, how many minutes all the calls in
-Norway sums up to, and the cost of data storage.</p>
-
-<p>The 2005 numbers are from
-<a href="http://www.digi.no/analyser/2005/10/04/vi-prater-stadig-mindre-i-roret">digi.no</a>,
-the 2012 numbers are from
-<a href="http://www.nkom.no/aktuelt/nyheter/fortsatt-vekst-i-det-norske-ekommarkedet">a
-NKOM report</a>, and I got the 2013 numbers after asking NKOM via
-email. I was told the numbers for 2014 will be presented May 20th,
-and decided not to wait for those, as I doubt they will be very
-different from the numbers from 2013.</p>
-
-<p>The amount of data storage per minute sound depend on the wanted
-quality, and for phone calls it is generally believed that 8 Kbit/s is
-enough. See for example a
-<a href="http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/voice/voice-quality/7934-bwidth-consume.html#topic1">summary
-on voice quality from Cisco</a> for some alternatives. 8 Kbit/s is 60
-Kbytes/min, and this can be multiplied with the number of call minutes
-to get the storage requirements.</p>
-
-<p>Storage prices varies a lot, depending on speed, backup strategies,
-availability requirements etc. But a simple way to calculate can be
-to use the price of a TiB-disk (around 1000 NOK / 120 EUR) and double
-it to take space, power and redundancy into account. It could be much
-higher with high speed and good redundancy requirements.</p>
-
-<p>But back to the question, What would it cost to store all phone
-calls in Norway? Not much. Here is a small table showing the
-estimated cost, which is within the budget constraint of most medium
-and large organisations:</p>
-
-<table border="1">
-<tr><th>Year</th><th>Call minutes</th><th>Size</th><th>Price in NOK / EUR</th></tr>
-<tr><td>2005</td><td align="right">24 000 000 000</td><td align="right">1.3 PiB</td><td align="right">3 mill / 358 000</td></tr>
-<tr><td>2012</td><td align="right">18 000 000 000</td><td align="right">1.0 PiB</td><td align="right">2.2 mill / 262 000</td></tr>
-<tr><td>2013</td><td align="right">17 000 000 000</td><td align="right">950 TiB</td><td align="right">2.1 mill / 250 000</td></tr>
-</table>
-
-<p>This is the cost of buying the storage. Maintenance need to be
-taken into account too, but calculating that is left as an exercise
-for the reader. But it is obvious to me from those numbers that
-recording the sound of all phone calls in Norway is not going to be
-stopped because it is too expensive. I wonder if someone already is
-collecting the data?</p>
+ <title>I want the courts to be involved before the police can hijack a news site DNS domain (#domstolkontroll)</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_want_the_courts_to_be_involved_before_the_police_can_hijack_a_news_site_DNS_domain___domstolkontroll_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_want_the_courts_to_be_involved_before_the_police_can_hijack_a_news_site_DNS_domain___domstolkontroll_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I just donated to the
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml">NUUG defence
+"fond"</a> to fund the effort in Norway to get the seizure of the news
+site popcorn-time.no tested in court. I hope everyone that agree with
+me will do the same.</p>
+
+<p>Would you be worried if you knew the police in your country could
+hijack DNS domains of news sites covering free software system without
+talking to a judge first? I am. What if the free software system
+combined search engine lookups, bittorrent downloads and video playout
+and was called Popcorn Time? Would that affect your view? It still
+make me worried.</p>
+
+<p>In March 2016, the Norwegian police seized (as in forced NORID to
+change the IP address pointed to by it to one controlled by the
+police) the DNS domain popcorn-time.no, without any supervision from
+the courts. I did not know about the web site back then, and assumed
+the courts had been involved, and was very surprised when I discovered
+that the police had hijacked the DNS domain without asking a judge for
+permission first. I was even more surprised when I had a look at
+<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://popcorn-time.no">the web
+site content on the Internet Archive</A>, and only found news coverage
+about Popcorn Time, not any material published without the right
+holders permissions.</p>
+
+<p>The seizure was widely covered in the Norwegian press (see for
+example <a href="http://www.hegnar.no/Nyheter/Naeringsliv/2016/03/Popcorn-time.no-beslaglagt-av-OEkokrim">Hegnar Online</a> and
+<a href="http://itavisen.no/2016/03/08/okokrim-har-beslaglagt-popcorn-time-no/">ITavisen<a/>
+and
+<a href="http://www.nrk.no/kultur/okokrim-gar-til-aksjon-mot-popcorn-time-1.12842452">NRK</a>),
+at first due to the press release sent out by Økokrim, but then based
+on
+<a href="http://blogg.torvund.net/2016/03/09/okokrims-beslag-i-domenet-popcorn-time-no/">protests
+from the law professor Olav Torvund</a> and
+<a href="http://www.klassekampen.no/article/20160311/ARTICLE/160319995">lawyer
+Jon Wessel-Aas</a>. It even got some
+<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/norwegian-authorities-sued-over-popcorn-time-domain-seizure-160418/">coverage
+on TorrentFreak</a>.</p>
+
+<p>I
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html">
+wrote about the case a month ago</a>, when the
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Norwegian Unix User Group</a> (NUUG),
+where I am an active member, decided to ask the courts to test this seizure.
+The request was denied, but NUUG and its co-requestor EFN have not
+given up, and now they are rallying for support to get the seizure
+legally challenged. They accept both bank and Bitcoin transfer for
+those that want to support the request.</p>
+
+<p>If you as me believe news sites about free software should not be
+censored, even if the free software have both legal and illegal
+applications, and that DNS hijacking should be tested by the courts, I
+suggest you <a href="http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml">show
+your support by donating to NUUG</a>.</a>
</description>
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- <title>First Jessie based Debian Edu beta release</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Jessie_based_Debian_Edu_beta_release.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Jessie_based_Debian_Edu_beta_release.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2015 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I am happy to report that the Debian Edu team sent out
-<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2015/04/msg00000.html">this
-announcement today</a>:</p>
-
-<pre>
-the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is pleased to announce the first
-*beta* release of Debian Edu "Jessie" 8.0+edu0~b1, which for the first
-time is composed entirely of packages from the current Debian stable
-release, Debian 8 "Jessie".
-
-(As most reading this will know, Debian "Jessie" hasn't actually been
-released by now. The release is still in progress but should finish
-later today ;)
-
-We expect to make a final release of Debian Edu "Jessie" in the coming
-weeks, timed with the first point release of Debian Jessie. Upgrades
-from this beta release of Debian Edu Jessie to the final release will
-be possible and encouraged!
-
-Please report feedback to debian-edu@lists.debian.org and/or submit
-bugs: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs
-
-Debian Edu - sometimes also known as "Skolelinux" - is a complete
-operating system for schools, universities and other
-organisations. Through its pre- prepared installation profiles
-administrators can install servers, workstations and laptops which
-will work in harmony on the school network. With Debian Edu, the
-teachers themselves or their technical support staff can roll out a
-complete multi-user, multi-machine study environment within hours or
-days.
-
-Debian Edu is already in use at several hundred schools all over the
-world, particularly in Germany, Spain and Norway. Installations come
-with hundreds of applications pre-installed, plus the whole Debian
-archive of thousands of compatible packages within easy reach.
-
-For those who want to give Debian Edu Jessie a try, download and
-installation instructions are available, including detailed
-instructions in the manual explaining the first steps, such as setting
-up a network or adding users. Please note that the password for the
-user your prompted for during installation must have a length of at
-least 5 characters!
-
-== Where to download ==
-
-A multi-architecture CD / usbstick image (649 MiB) for network booting
-can be downloaded at the following locations:
-
- http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~b1-CD.iso
- rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~b1-CD.iso .
-
-The SHA1SUM of this image is: 54a524d16246cddd8d2cfd6ea52f2dd78c47ee0a
-
-Alternatively an extended DVD / usbstick image (4.9 GiB) is also
-available, with more software included (saving additional download
-time):
-
- http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~b1-USB.iso
- rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~b1-USB.iso
-
-The SHA1SUM of this image is: fb1f1504a490c077a48653898f9d6a461cb3c636
-
-Sources are available from the Debian archive, see
-http://ftp.debian.org/debian-cd/8.0.0/source/ for some download
-options.
-
-== Debian Edu Jessie manual in seven languages ==
-
-Please see https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/ for
-the English version of the Debian Edu jessie manual.
-
-This manual has been fully translated to German, French, Italian,
-Danish, Dutch and Norwegian Bokmål. A partly translated version exists
-for Spanish. See http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/ for
-online version of the translated manual.
-
-More information about Debian 8 "Jessie" itself is provided in the
-release notes and the installation manual:
-- http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes
-- http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/installmanual
-
-
-== Errata / known problems ==
-
- It takes up to 15 minutes for a changed hostname to be updated via
- DHCP (#780461).
-
- The hostname script fails to update LTSP server hostname (#783087).
-
-Workaround: run update-hostname-from-ip on the client to update the
-hostname immediately.
-
-Check https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie for a possibly
-more current and complete list.
-
-== Some more details about Debian Edu 8.0+edu0~b1 Codename Jessie released 2015-04-25 ==
-
-=== Software updates ===
-
-Everything which is new in Debian 8 Jessie, e.g.:
-
- * Linux kernel 3.16.7-ctk9; for the i386 architecture, support for
- i486 processors has been dropped; oldest supported ones: i586 (like
- Intel Pentium and AMD K5).
-
- * Desktop environments KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.11.13, GNOME 3.14,
- Xfce 4.12, LXDE 0.5.6
- * new optional desktop environment: MATE 1.8
- * KDE Plasma Workspaces is installed by default; to choose one of
- the others see the manual.
- * the browsers Iceweasel 31 ESR and Chromium 41
- * LibreOffice 4.3.3
- * GOsa 2.7.4
- * LTSP 5.5.4
- * CUPS print system 1.7.5
- * new boot framework: systemd
- * Educational toolbox GCompris 14.12
- * Music creator Rosegarden 14.02
- * Image editor Gimp 2.8.14
- * Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.13.1
- * golearn 0.9
- * tuxpaint 0.9.22
- * New version of debian-installer from Debian Jessie.
- * Debian Jessie includes about 43000 packages available for installation.
- * More information about Debian 8 Jessie is provided in its release
- notes and the installation manual, see the link above.
-
-=== Installation changes ===
-
- Installations done via PXE now also install firmware automatically
- for the hardware present.
-
-=== Fixed bugs ===
-
-A number of bugs have been fixed in this release; the most noticeable
-from a user perspective:
-
- * Inserting incorrect DNS information in Gosa will no longer break
- DNS completely, but instead stop DNS updates until the incorrect
- information is corrected (710362)
-
- * shutdown-at-night now shuts the system down if gdm3 is used (775608).
-
-=== Sugar desktop removed ===
-
-As the Sugar desktop was removed from Debian Jessie, it is also not
-available in Debian Edu jessie.
-
-
-== About Debian Edu / Skolelinux ==
-
-Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based on
-Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
-configured school network. Directly after installation a school server
-running all services needed for a school network is set up just
-waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
-Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
-initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other
-machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server
-provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service,
-centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other
-services. The desktop contains more than 60 educational software
-packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools
-can choose between KDE, GNOME, LXDE, Xfce and MATE desktop
-environment.
-
-== About Debian ==
-
-The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly
-free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of
-the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
-volunteers from all over the world work together to create and
-maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a
-huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the universal
-operating system.
-
-== Thanks ==
-
-Thanks to everyone making Debian and Debian Edu / Skolelinux happen!
-You rock.
-</pre>
+ <title>Debian now with ZFS on Linux included</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_with_ZFS_on_Linux_included.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_with_ZFS_on_Linux_included.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2016 07:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Today, after many years of hard work from many people,
+<a href="http://zfsonlinux.org/">ZFS for Linux</a> finally entered
+Debian. The package status can be seen on
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/zfs-linux">the package tracker
+for zfs-linux</a>. and
+<a href="https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-zfsonlinux-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">the
+team status page</a>. If you want to help out, please join us.
+<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-zfsonlinux/zfs.git">The
+source code</a> is available via git on Alioth. It would also be
+great if you could help out with
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dkms">the dkms package</a>, as
+it is an important piece of the puzzle to get ZFS working.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Debian Edu interview: Shirish Agarwal</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Shirish_Agarwal.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Shirish_Agarwal.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2015 09:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>It was a surprise to me to learn that project to create a complete
-computer system for schools I've involved in,
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>, was
-being used in India. But apparently it is, and I managed to get an
-interview with one of the friends of the project there, Shirish
-Agarwal.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
-
-<p>My name is Shirish Agarwal. Based out of the educational and
-historical city of Pune, from the western state of Maharashtra, India.
-My bread comes from giving training, giving policy tips,
-installations on free software to mom and pop shops in different
-fields from Desktop publishing to retail shops as well as work with
-few software start-ups as well.</p>
-
-<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
-project?</strong></p>
-
-<p>It started innocently enough. I have been using Debian for a few
-years and in one local minidebconf / debutsav I was asked if there was
-anything for schools or education. I had worked / played with free
-educational softwares such as Gcompris and Stellarium for my many
-nieces and nephews so researched and found Debian Edu or Skolelinux as
-it was known then. Since then I have started using the various
-education meta-packages provided by the project.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>It's closest I have seen where a package full of educational
-software are packed, which are free and open (both literally and
-figuratively). Even if I take the simplest software which is
-gcompris, the number of activities therein are amazing. Another one of
-the softwares that I have liked for a long time is stellarium. Even
-pysycache is cool except for couple of issues I encountered
-<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/781841">#781841</a> and
-<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/781842">#781842</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I prefer software installed on the system over web based solutions,
-as a web site can disappear any time but the software on disk has the
-possibility of a larger life span. Of course with both it's more a
-question if it has enough users who make it fun or sustainable or both
-for the developer per-se.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>I do see that the Debian Edu team seems to be short-handed and I
-think more efforts should be made to make it popular and ask and take
-help from people and the larger community wherever possible.</p>
-
-<p>I don't see any disadvantage to use Skolelinux apart from the fact
-that most apps. are generic which is good or bad how you see it.
-However, saying that I do acknowledge the fact that the canvas is
-pretty big and there are lot of interesting ideas that could be done
-but for reasons not known not done or if done I don't know about them.
-Let me share some of the ideas (these are more upstream based but
-still) I have had for a long time :</p>
-
-<p>1. Classical maths question of two trains in opposing directions
-each running @x kmph/mph at y distance, when they will meet and how
-far would each travel and similar questions like these.
-
-<p>The computer is a fantastic system where questions like these can
-be drawn, animated and the methodology and answers teased out in
-interactive manner. While sites such as the
-<a href="http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.two.trains.html">Ask
-Dr. Math FAQ on The Two Trains problem</a> (as an example or point of
-inspiration) can be used there is lot more that can be done. I dunno
-if there is a free software which does something like this. The idea
-being a blend of objects + animation + interaction which does
-this. The whole interaction could be gamified with points or sounds or
-colourful celebration whenever the user gets even part of the question
-or/and methodology right. That would help reinforce good behaviour.
-This understanding could be used to share/showcase everything from how
-the first wheel came to be, to evolution to how astronomy started,
-psychics and everything in-between.</p>
-
-<p>One specific idea in the train part was having the Linux mascot on
-one train and the BSD or GNU mascot on the other train and they
-meeting somewhere in-between. Characters from blender movies could
-also be used.</p>
-
-<p>2. Loads of crossword-puzzles with reference to subjects: We have
-enormous data sets in Wikipedia and Wikitionary. I don't think it
-should be a big job to design crossword puzzles. Using categories and
-sub-categories it should be doable to have Q&A single word answers
-from the existing data-sets. What would make it easy or hard could be
-the length of the word + existence of many or few vowels depending on
-the user's input.</p>
-
-<p>3. Jigsaw puzzles - We already have a great software called
-palapeli with number of slicers making it pretty interesting. What
-needs to be done is to download large number of public domain and
-copyleft images, tease and use IPTC tags to categorise them into
-nature, history etc. and let it loose. This could turn to be really
-huge collection of images. One source could be taken from
-commons.wikimedia.org, others could be huge collection of royalty-free
-stock photos. Potential is immense.</p>
-
-<p>Apart from this, free software suffers in two directions, we lag
-both in development (of using new features per-se) and maintenance a
-lot. This is more so in educational software as these applications
-need to be timely and the opportunity cost of missing deadlines is
-immense. If we are able to solve issues of funding for development and
-maintenance of such software I don't see any big difficulties. I know
-of few start-ups in and around India who would love to develop and
-maintain such software if funding issues could be solved.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
-
-<p>That would be huge list. Some of the softwares are obviously apt,
-aptitude, debdelta, leafpad, the shell of course (zsh nowadays),
-quassel for IRC. In games I use shisen-sho while card-games are evenly
-between kpat and Aiselriot. In desktops it's a tie between
-gnome-flashback and mate.</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 it should first start with using specific FOSS apps. in
-whatever environment they are. If it's MS-Windows or Mac so be it.
-Once they are habitual with the apps. and there is buy-in from the
-school management then it could be installed anywhere. Most of the
-people now understand the concept of a repository because of the
-various online stores so it isn't hard to convince on that front.</p>
-
-<p>What is harder is having enough people with technical skills and
-passion to service them. If you get buy-in from one or two teachers
-then ideas like above could also be asked to be done as a project as
-well.</p>
-
-<p>I think where we fall short more than anything is in marketing. For
-instance, Debian has this whole range of fonts in its archive but
-there isn't even a page where all those different fonts in the La
-Ipsum format could be tried out for newcomers.</p>
-
-<p>One of the issues faced constantly in installations is with updates
-and upgrades. People have this myth that each update and upgrade
-means the user interface will / has to change. I have seen this
-innumerable times. That perhaps is one of the reasons which browsers
-like Iceweasel / Firefox change user interfaces so much, not because
-it might be needed or be functional but because people believe that
-changed user interfaces are better. This, can easily be pointed with
-the user interfaces changed with almost every MS-Windows and Mac OS
-releases.</p>
-
-<p>The problems with Debian Edu for deployment are many. The biggest
-is the huge gap between what is taught in schools and what Debian Edu
-is aimed at.
-
-<p>Me and my friends did teach on week-ends in a government school for
-around 2 years, and
-<a href="https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/sharings/">gathered
-some experience</a> there. Some of the things we learnt/discovered
-there was :</p>
-
-<ol>
-
- <li>Most of the teachers are very territorial about their subjects
- and they do not want you to teach anything out of the
- portion/syllabus given.</li>
-
- <li>They want any activity on the system in accordance to whatever
- is in the syllabus.</li>
-
- <li>There are huge barriers both with the English language and at
- times with objects or whatever. An example, let's say in gcompris
- you have objects falling down and you have to name them and let's
- say the falling object is a hat or a fedora hat, this would not be
- as recognizable as say a
- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puneri_Pagadi">Puneri
- Pagdi</a> so there is need to inject local objects, words wherever
- possible. Especially for word-games there are so many hindi words
- which have become part of english vocabulary (for instance in
- parley), those could be made into a hinglish collection or
- something but that is something for upstream to do.</li>
-
-</ol>
+ <title>What is the best multimedia player in Debian?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2016 09:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p><strong>Where I set out to figure out which multimedia player in
+Debian claim support for most file formats.</strong></p>
+
+<p>A few years ago, I had a look at the media support for Browser
+plugins in Debian, to get an idea which plugins to include in Debian
+Edu. I created a script to extract the set of supported MIME types
+for each plugin, and used this to find out which multimedia browser
+plugin supported most file formats / media types.
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia">The
+result</a> can still be seen on the Debian wiki, even though it have
+not been updated for a while. But browser plugins are less relevant
+these days, so I thought it was time to look at standalone
+players.</p>
+
+<p>A few days ago I was tired of VLC not being listed as a viable
+player when I wanted to play videos from the Norwegian National
+Broadcasting Company, and decided to investigate why. The cause is a
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/822245">missing MIME type in the VLC
+desktop file</a>. In the process I wrote a script to compare the set
+of MIME types announced in the desktop file and the browser plugin,
+only to discover that there is quite a large difference between the
+two for VLC. This discovery made me dig up the script I used to
+compare browser plugins, and adjust it to compare desktop files
+instead, to try to figure out which multimedia player in Debian
+support most file formats.</p>
+
+<p>The result can be seen on the Debian Wiki, as
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport">a
+table listing all MIME types supported by one of the packages included
+in the table</a>, with the package supporting most MIME types being
+listed first in the table.</p>
+
+</p>The best multimedia player in Debian? It is totem, followed by
+parole, kplayer, mpv, vlc, smplayer mplayer-gui gnome-mpv and
+kmplayer. Time for the other players to update their announced MIME
+support?</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>I'm going to the Open Source Developers' Conference Nordic 2015!</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_m_going_to_the_Open_Source_Developers__Conference_Nordic_2015_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_m_going_to_the_Open_Source_Developers__Conference_Nordic_2015_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 7 Apr 2015 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I am happy to let you all know that I'm going to the <a
-href="http://act.osdc.no/osdc2015no/">Open Source Developers'
-Conference Nordic 2015</a>!</p>
-
-<p>It take place Friday 8th to Sunday 10th of May in Oslo next to
-where I work, and I finally got around to submitting
-<a href="http://act.osdc.no/osdc2015no/talk/6192">a talk proposal for
-it</a> (dead link for most people until the talk is accepted). As
-part of my involvement with the
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Norwegian Unix User Group member
-association</a> I have been slightly involved in the planning of this
-conference for a while now, with a focus on organising a Civic Hacking
-Hackathon with our friends
-over at <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/">mySociety</a> and
-<a href="http://www.holderdeord.no/">Holder de ord</a>. This part is
-named the 'My Society' track in the program. There is still space for
-more talks and participants. I hope to see you there.</p>
-
-<p>Check out <a href="http://act.osdc.no/osdc2015no/talks">the talks
-submitted and accepted so far</a>.</p>
+ <title>The Pyra - handheld computer with Debian preinstalled</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Pyra___handheld_computer_with_Debian_preinstalled.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Pyra___handheld_computer_with_Debian_preinstalled.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2016 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description>A friend of mine made me aware of
+<a href="https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/">The Pyra</a>, a
+handheld computer which will be delivered with Debian preinstalled. I
+would love to get one of those for my birthday. :)</p>
+
+<p>The machine is a complete ARM-based PC with micro HDMI, SATA, USB
+plugs and many others connectors, and include a full keyboard and a 5"
+LCD touch screen. The 6000mAh battery is claimed to provide a whole
+day of battery life time, but I have not seen any independent tests
+confirming this. The vendor is still collecting preorders, and the
+last I heard last night was that 22 more orders were needed before
+production started.</p>
+
+<p>As far as I know, this is the first handheld preinstalled with
+Debian. Please let me know if you know of any others. Is it the
+first computer being sold with Debian preinstalled?</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Proof reading the Norwegian translation of Free Culture by Lessig</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Proof_reading_the_Norwegian_translation_of_Free_Culture_by_Lessig.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Proof_reading_the_Norwegian_translation_of_Free_Culture_by_Lessig.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sat, 4 Apr 2015 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>During eastern I had some time to continue working on the 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.
-At the moment I am proof reading the finished text, looking for typos,
-inconsistent wordings and sentences that do not flow as they should.
-I'm more than two thirds done with the text, and welcome others to
-check the text up to chapter 13. The current status is available on the
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>
-project pages. You can also check out the
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true">PDF</a>,
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true">EPUB</a>
-and HTML version available in the
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/tree/master/archive">archive
-directory</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Please report typos, bugs and improvements to the github project if
-you find any.</p>
+ <title>NUUG contests Norwegian police DNS seizure of popcorn-time.no</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>It is days like today I am really happy to be a member of
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">the Norwegian Unix User group</a>, a
+member association for those of us believing in free software, open
+standards and unix-like operating systems. NUUG announced today it
+will
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/news/Pressemelding__NUUG_og_EFN_begj_rer_rettslig_pr_ving_for_DNS_domenebeslag_av_popcorn_time_no.shtml">try
+to bring the seizure of the DNS domain popcorn-time.no as
+unlawful</a>, to stand up for the principle that writing about a
+controversial topic is not infringing copyrights, and censuring web
+pages by hijacking DNS domain should be decided by the courts, not the
+police. The DNS domain was seized by the Norwegian National Authority
+for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime
+a month ago. I hope this bring more paying members to NUUG to give
+the association the financial muscle needed to bring this case as far
+as it must go to stop this kind of DNS hijacking.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Frikanalen, Norwegian TV channel for technical topics</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Frikanalen__Norwegian_TV_channel_for_technical_topics.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Frikanalen__Norwegian_TV_channel_for_technical_topics.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Mon, 9 Mar 2015 11:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>The <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Norwegian Unix User Group</a>,
-where I am a member, and where people interested in free software,
-open standards and UNIX like operating systems like Linux and the BSDs
-come together, record our monthly technical presentations on video.
-The purpose is to document the talks and spread them to a wider
-audience. For this, the the Norwegian nationwide open channel
-<a href="http://www.frikanalen.no/">Frikanalen</a> is a useful venue.
-Since a few days ago, when I figured out the
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.no/api/">REST API</a> to program the
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.tv/guide/">channel time schedule</a>,
-the channel has been filled with NUUG talks, related recordings and
-some Creative Commons licensed TED talks (from archive.org). I fill
-all "leftover bits" on the channel with content from NUUG, which at
-the moment is almost 17 of 24 hours every day.</p>
+ <title>Ny utgave (v2.2) av den frie norske stavekontrollen gitt ut</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_utgave__v2_2__av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen_gitt_ut.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_utgave__v2_2__av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen_gitt_ut.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2016 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I dag tok jeg mot til meg og pakket sammen en ny versjon av den
+frie norske stavekontrollen, ca. tre og et halvt år etter forrige
+gang. Resultatet kan lastes ned fra
+<a href="http://no.speling.org/">no.speling.org-prosjeksiden</a>, både
+som kildekodepakke og som "pack"-fil som kanskje fortsatt kan brukes
+av OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice. Byggesystemet trenger oppussing, men i
+denne omgang hadde jeg bare tid til å fikse byggefeil forårsaket av
+endringer i GNU grep. De øvrige endringene var gjort tidligere i
+påvente av en ny utgave.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Her er det som er nytt (fra NEWS-fila i
+kildekodepakken):</strong></p>
+
+<p>Release 2.2 (2016-04-15)</p>
-<p>The list of NUUG videos
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.tv/organization/82">uploaded so far</a>
-include things like a
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.tv/video/625090">one hour talk by John
-Perry Barlow when he visited Oslo</a>, a presentation of
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.tv/video/624275">Haiku, the BeOS
-re-implementation</a>, the
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.tv/video/624493">history of FiksGataMi,
-the Norwegian version of FixMyStreet</a>, the good old
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.tv/video/623566">Warriors of the net
-video</A> and many others.</p>
+<ul>
-<p>We have a large backlog of NUUG talks not yet uploaded to
-Frikanalen, and plan to upload every useful bit to the channel to
-spread the word there. I also hope to find useful recordings from the
-Chaos Computer Club and Debian conferences and spread them on the
-channel as well. But this require locating the videos and their meta
-information (title, description, license, etc), and preparing the
-recordings for broadcast, and I have not yet had the spare time to
-focus on this. Perhaps you want to help. Please join us on IRC,
-<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nuug">#nuug on irc.freenode.net</a>
-if you want to help make this happen.</p>
+ <li>Rewrite how scripts/speling2words handle tripple consonants, to
+ avoid importing duplicate words from no.speling.org, and getting
+ rid of the existing duplicates in norsk.words.</li>
+ <li>Remove duplicate entries with tripple consonants from norsk.words.</li>
+ <li>Update frequency for entries in norsk.words based on
+ <URL:http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/nta/ordlistf.zip> (ran 'make
+ freq-update').</li>
+ <li>Correct nn ispell build, avoid crash in munchlist causing lots of
+ words to fall out of the database.</li>
+ <li>Use grep -a to convince grep it is working on text files, to work
+ with newer grep versions.</li>
+
+ <li>Remove some words disputed in the no.speling.org review process:
+ <ul>
+ <li>apparent (nb)</li>
+ <li>likke (nb)</li>
+ <li>ugjest, ugjesten, ugjestens (nb)</li>
+ </ul></li>
-<p>But as I said, already the channel is already almost exclusively
-filled with technical topics, and if you want to learn something new
-today, check out the <a href="http://www.frikanalen.tv/se">Ogg Theora
-web stream</a> or use one of the other ways to get access to the
-channel. Unfortunately the Ogg Theora recoding for distribution still
-do not properly sync the video and sound. It is generated by recoding
-a internal MPEG transport stream with MPEG4 coded video (ie H.264) to
-Ogg Theora / Vorbis, and we have not been able to find a way that
-produces acceptable quality. Help needed, please get in touch if you
-know how to fix it using free software.</p>
+</ul>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>The Citizenfour documentary on the Snowden confirmations to Norway</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Citizenfour_documentary_on_the_Snowden_confirmations_to_Norway.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Citizenfour_documentary_on_the_Snowden_confirmations_to_Norway.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2015 22:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Today I was happy to learn that the documentary
-<a href="https://citizenfourfilm.com/">Citizenfour</a> by
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Poitras">Laura Poitras</a>
-finally will show up in Norway. According to the magazine
-<a href="http://montages.no/">Montages</a>, a deal has finally been
-made for
-<a href="http://montages.no/nyheter/snowden-dokumentaren-citizenfour-far-norsk-kinodistribusjon/">Cinema
-distribution in Norway</a> and the movie will have its premiere soon.
-This is great news. As part of my involvement with
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">the Norwegian Unix User Group</a>, me and
-a friend have
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/news/Dokumentar_om_Snowdenbekreftelsene_til_Norge_.shtml">tried
-to get the movie to Norway</a> ourselves, but obviously
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/news/Dokumentar_om_Snowdenbekreftelsene_endelig_til_Norge_.shtml">we
-were too late</a> and Tor Fosse beat us to it. I am happy he did, as
-the movie will make its way to the public and we do not have to make
-it happen ourselves.
-<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiGwAvd5mvM">The trailer</a>
-can be seen on youtube, if you are curious what kind of film this
-is.</p>
-
-<p>The whistle blower Edward Snowden really deserve political asylum
-here in Norway, but I am afraid he would not be safe.</p>
+ <title>I.F. Stone - an inspiration for us all</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_F__Stone___an_inspiration_for_us_all.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_F__Stone___an_inspiration_for_us_all.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2016 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I first got to know I.F. Stone when I came across an article by Jon
+Schwarz on The Intercept
+<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/05/07/new-documentary-legacy-f-stone/">about
+his extraordinary contribution to investigative journalism in
+USA</a>. The article is about a new documentary in two parts
+(<a href="https://vimeo.com/123974841">part one is 12 minutes</a> and
+<a href="https://vimeo.com/123974842">part two is 30 minutes</a>), and
+I found both truly fascinating. It is amazing what he was able to
+find by digging up public sources and government papers. He
+documented lots of government abuse and cover ups, and I find
+<a href="http://www.ifstone.org/weekly.php">his weekly news letters</a>
+inspiring to read even today.</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
+<br>- I. F. Stone
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>His starting point was that reporters should not assume governments
+and corporations are telling the truth, but verify all their claims as
+much as possible. I wonder how many Norwegian reporters can be said
+to follow the principles of I. F. Stone. They are definitely in short
+supply. If you, like me half a year ago, have never heard of him,
+check him out.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>The Norwegian open channel Frikanalen - 24x7 on the Internet</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Norwegian_open_channel_Frikanalen___24x7_on_the_Internet.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Norwegian_open_channel_Frikanalen___24x7_on_the_Internet.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2015 09:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>The Norwegian nationwide open channel
-<a href="http://www.frikanalen.no/">Frikanalen</a> is still going
-strong. It allow everyone to send the video they want on national
-television. It is a TV station administrated completely using a web
-browser, running only <ahref="https://github.com/Frikanalen">Free
-Software</a>, providing <ahref="http://beta.frikanalen.tv/api">a REST
-api</a> for administrators and members, and with distribution on the
-national DVB-T distribution network RiksTV. But only between 12:00
-and 17:30 Norwegian time. This has finally changed, after many years
-with limited distribution. A few weeks ago, we set up a Ogg Theora
-stream via icecast to allow everyone with Internet access to check out
-the channel the rest of the day. This is presented on
-<a href="http://www.frikanalen.tv/se">the Frikanalen web site now</a>. And
-since a few days ago, the channel is also available
-via <a href="https://www.uninett.no/iptv-tilgang">multicast on
-UNINETT</a>, available for those using IPTV TVs and set-top boxes in
-the Norwegian National Research and Education network.</p>
-
-<p>If you want to see what is on the channel, point your media player
-to one of these sources. The first should work with most players and
-browsers, while as far as I know, the multicast UDP stream only work
-with VLC.</p>
-
-<ul>
- <li><a href="http://video.nuug.no/frikanalen.ogv">http://video.nuug.no/frikanalen.ogv</a></li>
- <li>udp://@224.17.43.129:1234</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>The Ogg Theora / icecast stream is not working well, as the video
-and audio is slightly out of sync. We have not been able to figure
-out how to fix it. It is generated by recoding a internal MPEG
-transport stream with MPEG4 coded video (ie H.264) to Ogg Theora /
-Vorbis, and the result is less then stellar. If you have ideas how to
-fix it, please let us know on frikanalen (at) nuug.no. We currently
-use this with ffmpeg2theora 0.29:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-./ffmpeg2theora.linux &lt;OBE_gemini_URL.ts&gt; -F 25 -x 720 -y 405 \
- --deinterlace --inputfps 25 -c 1 -H 48000 --keyint 8 --buf-delay 100 \
- --nosync -V 700 -o - | oggfwd video.nuug.no 8000 &lt;pw&gt; /frikanalen.ogv
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>If you get the multicast UDP stream working, please let me know, as
-I am curious how far the multicast stream reach. It do not make it to
-my home network, nor any other commercially available network in
-Norway that I am aware of.</p>
+ <title>A French paperback edition of the book Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig is now available</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_French_paperback_edition_of_the_book_Free_Culture_by_Lawrence_Lessig_is_now_available.html</link>
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+ <pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I'm happy to report that
+<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html">the
+French paperback edition</a> of
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">my
+project to translate</a> the <a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free
+Culture</a> book by Lawrence Lessig is now available for sale on
+Lulu.com. Once I have formally verified my proof reading copy, which
+should be in the mail, the paperback edition should be available in
+book stores like Amazon and Barnes & Noble too.</p>
+
+<p>This French edition, Culture Libre, is the work of the
+<a href="http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/">dblatex</a> developer Benoît
+Guillon, who created the PO file from the initial translation
+available from
+<a href="http://www.wikilivres.ca/wiki/Culture_libre">the Wikilivres
+wiki pages</a> and completed and corrected the translation to match
+the original docbook edition my project is using, as well as
+coordinated the proof reading of the final result. I believe the end
+result look great, but I am biased and do not read French. In
+addition to the paperback edition, the book is available in PDF, EPUB
+and Mobi format from the github project page linked to above.</p>
+
+<p>When enabling book store distribution on Lulu.com, I had to nearly
+triple the price to allow the book stores some profit. I also had to
+accept that I will get some revenue when a book is sold via Lulu.com.
+But because of the non-commercial clause in the book license
+(CC-BY-NC), this might be a problem. To bypass the problem I
+discussed how to handle the revenue with the author, and we agreed
+that the revenue for these editions go to the
+<a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons non-profit
+Corporation</a> who handle donations to the Creative Commons project.
+So far they have earned around USD 70 on sales of the
+<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22440520.html">English</a>
+and
+<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html">Norwegian
+Bokmål</a> editions, according to Lulu.com. They will get the revenue
+for the French edition too. Their revenue is higher if you buy the
+book directly from Lulu.com instead of via a book store, so I
+recommend you buy directly from Lulu.com.</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps you would like to get the book published in your language?
+The translation is done using a web based translator service, so the
+technical bar to enter is fairly low. Get in touch if you would like
+to make this happen.</p>
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- <title>En enklere Osloskolehverdag med automatisk sjekk av Fronter</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/En_enklere_Osloskolehverdag_med_automatisk_sjekk_av_Fronter.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2015 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>En stund nå har jeg vært nødt til å forholde meg til
-<a href="https://fronter.com/osloskoler/">Fronter</a>, en nettløsning
-Osloskolen bruker for kontakt mellom hjem og skole. Løsningen
-imponerer ikke, og det er lagt opp til at vi foreldre skal logge inn
-regelmessig for å se om noe har endret seg. Idéen om å la folk stikke
-innom nettsider for å se om det har skjedd endringer er så idiotisk at
-jeg har lett etter et alternativ. Fronterløsningen har en innebygget
-løsning der en kan abonnere på forsiden (som viser en oppsummering av
-det en har tilgang til), og få tilsendt en kopi hver natt, men det
-fjerner jo bare behovet for å stikke innom, ikke den idiotiske ideen
-om at folk skal huske hvordan nettsiden så ut sist og oppdage hva som
-er endret.</p>
-
-<p>For å gjøre livet enklere har jeg derfor brukt litt tid på å lage
-et program som kobler seg opp og sjekker etter endringer automatisk,
-slik at jeg kan få beskjed fra datamaskinen når noe endrer seg i
-stedet for å forsøke å finne ut av det selv. I går ble scriptet
-brukbart, og jeg er dermed klar til å dele det med deg.</p>
-
-<p>Jeg startet med å skrive programmet i Python, og hadde en versjon
-som logget inn og hentet ned enkeltsider fra Fronter. Men
-Fronter-websidene suger golfballer gjennom en hageslange, med
-uleselig HTML, flere nivåer av iframes og en struktur på innholdet som
-er svært vanskelig å finne ut av, så jeg ga til slutt opp lxml-parsing
-med Python og forsøkte meg med WWW::Mechanize for Perl som jeg kjente
-fra før. I ettertid har jeg oppdaget at WWW:Mechanize også finnes for
-Python, så jeg kunne antagelig droppet språkbyttet. Men da jeg
-oppdaget det hadde jeg kommet så langt med Perl-utgaven, så jeg hoppet
-ikke tilbake.</p>
-
-<p>For å logge inn i Fronter besøker en enten skolens websider eller
-den sentrale innloggingsiden <tt>https://fronter.com/osloskoler/</tt>.
-Perl-koden for å logge inn ser slik ut:</p>
-
-<pre>
-my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
-$mech->get('https://fronter.com/osloskoler/');
-$mech->submit_form(fields => {
- username => $username,
- password => $password,
-} );
-</pre>
-
-<p>Neste steg er å få oversikt over hvilke «rom» en har tilgang til.
-På vår skole er det rom for skolen, biblioteket, elevrådet,
-aktivitetsskolen og klasser der en har unger, og dette vil være
-forskjellig fra person til person. Etter å ha romstert rundt i
-Fronter-grensesnittet endel kom jeg over en grei HTML-side med
-oversikt over rommene,
-<tt>https://fronter.com/osloskoler/adm/projects.phtml?mode=displayRoomchooser</tt>,
-så jeg bruker denne til å hente ut romoversikt med rom-ID.</p>
-
-<pre>
-my %room;
-$mech->get('https://fronter.com/osloskoler/adm/projects.phtml?mode=displayRoomchooser');
-for my $link ($mech->links()) {
- my $url = $link->url();
- if ($url =~ m%/links/list_files.phtml\?edit=(\d+)$%) {
- $room{$link->text()} = $1;
- }
-}
-</pre>
-
-<p>Når en har rom-ID kan en slå opp websiden for rommet, som starter
-på
-<tt>https://fronter.com/osloskoler/contentframeset.phtml?goto_prjid=$ROMID</tt>
-(der $ROMID byttes ut med rom-ID-tallet). Det gir en side med
-iframes, og en må tre nivåer ned i iframes før en får tak i
-HTML-informasjonen som vises frem når en ser på det aktuelle rommet.
-Her ga jeg opp den robuste parsingen og hardkodet endel URL-er som i
-stedet bør spores opp maskinelt. HTML-informasjonen som vises lagres
-i en fil etter at økt- og innloggings-nøkkel er fjernet og deretter
-bruker jeg <tt>lynx --dump --nolist</tt> for å hente ut en tekstlig
-utgave av websiden. Denne tekstlige utgaven sammenlignes med forrige
-versjon og oversikt over endringer kan så sendes ut på egnet vis.</p>
-
-<p>Jeg valgte å bruke git til å holde rede på endringer, så jeg
-sjekker inn HTML og tekst-utgaver i git og bruker git til å vise frem
-endringene i tekstutgavene. Programvaren for å gjøre dette er testet
-på Debian GNU/Linux og kan
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/fronter-scraper-oslo">lastes
-ned fra github</a>.</p>
-
-<p>For å bruke dette selv, kjør følgende kommandoer på din
-Debian-maskin (forutsetter sudo-tilgang for installasjon av
-programvare):</p>
-
-<pre>
-sudo apt-get install git lynx-cur libio-prompter-perl libwww-mechanize-perl \
- libconfig-inifiles-perl
-git clone https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/fronter-scraper-oslo
-cd fronter-scraper-oslo
-./update-git
-</pre>
-
-<p>Det gjenstår endel, men systemet er allerede nyttig for meg. Jeg
-ønsker at systemet også skal laste ned PDF-er og slikt som er lagt ut
-for nedlasting på sidene, slik at f.eks. ukeplaner kommer inn i
-git-arkivet mitt automatisk og jeg får automatisk beskjed når ny
-ukeplan er lagt ut. Kanskje du kan bidra med å få det på plass, eller
-kanskje du har andre ting du vil fikse? Jeg tar gjerne imot endringer
-og forbedringer. Det er mye som kan gjøres bedre, og scriptet er ikke
-veldig robust mot endringer hos nettsidene til Fronter. Jeg regner
-dermed med at det vil trengs oppdateringer jevnlig etter hvert som
-Fronter-løsningen endrer seg.</p>
+ <title>Lets make a Norwegian Bokmål edition of The Debian Administrator's Handbook</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook.html</link>
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+ <pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2016 23:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>During this weekends
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/news/Oslo__Takk_for_feilfiksingsfesten.shtml">bug
+squashing party and developer gathering</a>, we decided to do our part
+to make sure there are good books about Debian available in Norwegian
+Bokmål, and got in touch with the people behind the
+<a href="http://debian-handbook.info/">Debian Administrator's Handbook
+project</a> to get started. If you want to help out, please start
+contributing using
+<a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/debian-handbook/">the
+hosted weblate project page</a>, and get in touch using
+<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-handbook-translators">the
+translators mailing list</a>. Please also check out
+<a href="https://debian-handbook.info/contribute/">the instructions for
+contributors</a>.</p>
+
+<p>The book is already available on paper in English, French and
+Japanese, and our goal is to get it available on paper in Norwegian
+Bokmål too. In addition to the paper edition, there are also EPUB and
+Mobi versions available. And there are incomplete translations
+available for many more languages.</p>
</description>
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