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A French paperback edition of the book Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig is now available
-
12th April 2016
-

I'm happy to report that -the -French paperback edition of -my -project to translate the Free -Culture 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.

- -

This French edition, Culture Libre, is the work of the -dblatex developer Benoît -Guillon, who created the PO file from the initial translation -available from -the Wikilivres -wiki pages 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.

- -

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 -Creative Commons non-profit -Corporation who handle donations to the Creative Commons project. -So far they have earned around USD 70 on sales of the -English -and -Norwegian -Bokmål 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.

- -

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.

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Sales number for the Free Culture translation, first half of 2016
+
5th August 2016
+

As my regular readers probably remember, the last year I published +a French and Norwegian translation of the classic +Free Culture book by the +founder of the Creative Commons movement, Lawrence Lessig. A bit less +known is the fact that due to the way I created the translations, +using docbook and po4a, I also recreated the English original. And +because I already had created a new the PDF edition, I published it +too. The revenue from the books are sent to the Creative Commons +Corporation. In other words, I do not earn any money from this +project, I just earn the warm fuzzy feeling that the text is available +for a wider audience and more people can learn why the Creative +Commons is needed.

+ +

Today, just for fun, I had a look at the sales number over at +Lulu.com, which take care of payment, printing and shipping. Much to +my surprise, the English edition is selling better than both the +French and Norwegian edition, despite the fact that it has been +available in English since it was first published. In total, 24 paper +books was sold for USD $19.99 between 2016-01-01 and 2016-07-31:

+ + + + + + +
Title / languageQuantity
Culture Libre / French3
Fri kultur / Norwegian7
Free Culture / English14
+ +

The books are available both from Lulu.com and from large book +stores like Amazon and Barnes&Noble. Most revenue, around $10 per +book, is sent to the Creative Commons project when the book is sold +directly by Lulu.com. The other channels give less revenue. The +summary from Lulu tell me 10 books was sold via the Amazon channel, 10 +via Ingram (what is this?) and 4 directly by Lulu. And Lulu.com tells +me that the revenue sent so far this year is USD $101.42. No idea +what kind of sales numbers to expect, so I do not know if that is a +good amount of sales for a 10 year old book or not. But it make me +happy that the buyers find the book, and I hope they enjoy reading it +as much as I did.

+ +

The ebook edition is available for free from +Github.

+ +

If you would like to translate and publish the book in your native +language, I would be happy to help make it happen. Please get in +touch.

@@ -78,33 +79,40 @@ to make this happen.

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Lets make a Norwegian Bokmål edition of The Debian Administrator's Handbook
-
10th April 2016
-

During this weekends -bug -squashing party and developer gathering, 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 -Debian Administrator's Handbook -project to get started. If you want to help out, please start -contributing using -the -hosted weblate project page, and get in touch using -the -translators mailing list. Please also check out -the instructions for -contributors.

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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.

+
Vitenskapen tar som vanlig feil igjen - relativt feil
+
1st August 2016
+

For mange år siden leste jeg en klassisk tekst som gjorde såpass +inntrykk på meg at jeg husker den fortsatt, flere år senere, og bruker +argumentene fra den stadig vekk. Teksten var «The Relativity of +Wrong» som Isaac Asimov publiserte i Skeptical Inquirer i 1989. Den +gir litt perspektiv rundt formidlingen av vitenskapelige resultater. +Jeg har hatt lyst til å kunne dele den også med folk som ikke +behersker engelsk så godt, som barn og noen av mine eldre slektninger, +og har savnet å ha den tilgjengelig på norsk. For to uker siden tok +jeg meg sammen og kontaktet Asbjørn Dyrendal i foreningen Skepsis om +de var interessert i å publisere en norsk utgave på bloggen sin, og da +han var positiv tok jeg kontakt med Skeptical Inquirer og spurte om +det var greit for dem. I løpet av noen dager fikk vi tilbakemelding +fra Barry Karr hos The Skeptical Inquirer som hadde sjekket og fått OK +fra Robyn Asimov som representerte arvingene i Asmiov-familien og gikk +igang med oversettingen.

+ +

Resultatet, «Relativt +feil», ble publisert på skepsis-bloggen for noen minutter siden. +Jeg anbefaler deg på det varmeste å lese denne teksten og dele den med +dine venner.

+ +

For å håndtere oversettelsen og sikre at original og oversettelse +var i sync brukte vi git, po4a, GNU make og Transifex. Det hele +fungerte utmerket og gjorde det enkelt å dele tekstene og jobbe sammen +om finpuss på formuleringene. Hadde hosted.weblate.org latt meg +opprette nye prosjekter selv i stedet for å måtte kontakte +administratoren der, så hadde jeg brukt weblate i stedet.

- Tags: debian, english. + Tags: norsk, skepsis.
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One in two hundred Debian users using ZFS on Linux?
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7th April 2016
-

Just for fun I had a look at the popcon number of ZFS related -packages in Debian, and was quite surprised with what I found. I use -ZFS myself at home, but did not really expect many others to do so. -But I might be wrong.

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According to -the popcon -results for spl-linux, there are 1019 Debian installations, or -0.53% of the population, with the package installed. As far as I know -the only use of the spl-linux package is as a support library for ZFS -on Linux, so I use it here as proxy for measuring the number of ZFS -installation on Linux in Debian. In the kFreeBSD variant of Debian -the ZFS feature is already available, and there -the popcon -results for zfsutils show 1625 Debian installations or 0.84% of -the population. So I guess I am not alone in using ZFS on Debian.

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But even though the Debian project leader Lucas Nussbaum -announced -in April 2015 that the legal obstacles blocking ZFS on Debian were -cleared, the package is still not in Debian. The package is again in -the NEW queue. Several uploads have been rejected so far because the -debian/copyright file was incomplete or wrong, but there is no reason -to give up. The current status can be seen on -the -team status page, and -the -source code is available on Alioth.

- -

As I want ZFS to be included in next version of Debian to make sure -my home server can function in the future using only official Debian -packages, and the current blocker is to get the debian/copyright file -accepted by the FTP masters in Debian, I decided a while back to try -to help out the team. This was the background for my blog post about -creating, -updating and checking debian/copyright semi-automatically, and I -used the techniques I explored there to try to find any errors in the -copyright file. It is not very easy to check every one of the around -2000 files in the source package, but I hope we this time got it -right. If you want to help out, check out the git source and try to -find missing entries in the debian/copyright file.

+
Techno TV broadcasting live across Norway and the Internet (#debconf16, #nuug) on @frikanalen
+
1st August 2016
+

Did you know there is a TV channel broadcasting talks from DebConf +16 across an entire country? Or that there is a TV channel +broadcasting talks by or about +Linus Torvalds, +Tor, +OpenID, +Common Lisp, +Civic Tech, +EFF founder John Barlow, +how to make 3D +printer electronics and many more fascinating topics? It works +using only free software (all of it +available from Github), and +is administrated using a web browser and a web API.

+ +

The TV channel is the Norwegian open channel +Frikanalen, and I am involved +via the NUUG member association in +running and developing the software for the channel. The channel is +organised as a member organisation where its members can upload and +broadcast what they want (think of it as Youtube for national +broadcasting television). Individuals can broadcast too. The time +slots are handled on a first come, first serve basis. Because the +channel have almost no viewers and very few active members, we can +experiment with TV technology without too much flack when we make +mistakes. And thanks to the few active members, most of the slots on +the schedule are free. I see this as an opportunity to spread +knowledge about technology and free software, and have a script I run +regularly to fill up all the open slots the next few days with +technology related video. The end result is a channel I like to +describe as Techno TV - filled with interesting talks and +presentations.

+ +

It is available on channel 50 on the Norwegian national digital TV +network (RiksTV). It is also available as a multicast stream on +Uninett. And finally, it is available as +a WebM unicast stream from +Frikanalen and NUUG. Check it out. :)

- Tags: debian, english. + Tags: english, frikanalen, nuug, video.
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Statlig hemmelighold, «mangler» i OEP og treg journalføring - statistikk for 2015
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7th April 2016
-

For litt mer enn et år siden laget jeg litt statistikk for 2013 og -2014 basert på Offentlig elektronisk -postjournal (OEP). Tallene finnes i tre bloggposter, en over -hvem -som er mest hemmelighetsfulle, en annen med -hvor -mye som mangler og en om -hvor -stor andel dokumenter som journalføres mer enn 180 dager etter -dokumentdato. Jeg synes det er interessant å se hvordan det -utvikler seg over tid, så her er tallene for 2015 og 2014. 2014-tallene -bør være de samme som sist, men kan ha litt avvik på grunn av -endringer/korreksjoner gjort i OEP. Denne gangen har jeg samlet alle -tallene i samme bloggpost.

- -

Først kommer statistikken over antall dokumenter som er registrert -unntatt offentligheten i OEP. Merk at klassifiseringen i OEP er -foreløpig, slik at en kan få innsyn i dokumenter merket unntatt -offentlighet når en spør, etter nærmere vurdering. Det er dermed ikke -gitt at prosentsatsen representerer hvor mange dokumenter som ville -blitt holdt tilbake på forespørsel.

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ProsentAntall u.off.TotaltProsentAntall u.off.Totalt
0.0 0 2 0.0 0 0Valgdirektoratet
0.0 0 30 0.0 0 0Innstillingsrådet for dommere
0.3 11 3303 0.2 8 3589Medietilsynet
0.6 56 8013 0.9 60 6146Utlendingsnemnda
0.9 2 206 0.0 0 0Norsk Romsenter
1.0 182 17238 3.7 764 20353Norsk Filminstitutt
1.6 483 29920 2.7 720 26364Direktoratet for byggkvalitet
1.7 30 1674 2.5 42 1649Fredskorpset
2.42815116570 2.52098 82445Landbruksdirektoratet Oslo
2.5 621 24150 2.5 689 26855Direktoratet for utviklingssamarbeid
2.6 62 234013.3 288 2164Kunst i offentlige rom
3.2 272 8391 4.9 388 7838Statens strålevern
3.7 372 9970 4.4 480 10808Petroleumstilsynet
4.4 456 10318 3.7 408 10782Forbrukerombudet
5.0 14 27811.0 22 200Kompetansesenter for distriktsutvikling
6.2 467 7486 4.8 385 7973Sysselmannen på Svalbard
6.3 294 4651 7.4 304 4078Språkrådet
6.51241 18817 6.51352 20776Riksantikvaren - Direktoratet for kulturminneforvaltning
6.85381 79048 7.95981 75393Fiskeridirektoratet
7.24201 57778 2.81542 53911Norges vassdrags- og energidirektorat
7.42028 2738510.82342 21539Kulturdepartementet
7.713994179777 7.913743171924Arbeidstilsynet
8.63256 37553 8.53203 37675Nærings- og fiskeridepartementet
9.87256 73440 8.86541 74189Statens vegvesen Region midt
10.73802 35467 7.52780 36664Forsvarsbygg
11.01157 10448 9.61148 11935Landbruks- og matdepartementet
11.11408912665211.712439105491Statens vegvesen Region vest
11.11756 15726 6.91242 17980Brønnøysundregistrene
11.23417 30277 9.32653 28291Lotteri- og stiftelsestilsynet
12.22012 1649013.02183 16736Fylkesmannen i Hedmark
12.69751 7714515.311188 72933Sjøfartsdirektoratet
12.811031 8599610.57895 74653Arkivverket
12.82112616490612.619230151541Statens vegvesen Region øst
12.9 941 724722.81687 7393Domstoladministrasjonen
13.01417010828414.015650111147Statens vegvesen Region sør
13.41394 1036417.51484 8440Direktoratet for mineralforvaltning med Bergmesteren for Svalbard
13.65297 3870711.54366 37961Statens vegvesen Vegdirektoratet
14.43001 2082013.02943 22557Samferdselsdepartementet
14.49453 6564212.77841 61425Statens vegvesen Region nord
14.66998 4767011.25179 46025Statsbygg
15.43984 2576914.63663 25010Kunnskapsdepartementet
15.66769 43139 8.53697 43364Justervesenet
15.8 178 112616.1 184 1140Landinfo
16.2 516 318324.2 919 3790Landbruksdirektoratet Alta
16.21859 1142412.01100 9120Havforskningsinstituttet
16.3 142 869 0.0 0 0Fylkesmannen i Aust-Agder (frem til 31.12.15)
16.62081 1252221.12722 12850Statens jernbanetilsyn
17.210669 6202320.911602 55388Utdanningsdirektoratet
18.411189 6057712.96743 51881Miljødirektoratet
18.52719314680349.92549 5108Norsk kulturråd
18.82499 1328120.82888 13853Olje- og energidepartementet
18.87804 4136215.05824 38769Luftfartstilsynet
19.1 479 250521.1 563 2660Norges geologiske undersøkelse
19.213777 7140920.413318 65121Utenriksdepartementet
19.83605 1819422.14177 18833Klima- og miljødepartementet
20.61736 841223.12018 8701Statens lånekasse for utdanning
20.62930 1422018.72459 13138Barne-, ungdoms- og familiedirektoratet
21.03786 1797518.43213 17452Fylkesmannen i Telemark
21.44930 2297122.54565 20202Fylkesmannen i Møre og Romsdal
22.08244 3738517.56420 36587Statens kartverk
23.02212 959323.01797 7799Norsk Akkreditering
23.06622 2877721.46142 28622Nasjonal kommunikasjonsmyndighet
23.42672 1140525.73039 11812Oljedirektoratet
23.65430 2291820.24847 23968Fylkesmannen i Oppland
23.83657 1533422.63277 14499Fylkesmannen i Aust-Agder
23.88182 3432523.77754 32598Kommunal- og moderniseringsdepartementet
24.05806 2410327.45998 21864Barne-, likestillings- og inkluderingsdepartementet
24.2 197 81431.6 196 620Statens institutt for rusmiddelforskning
24.43266 1333821.62600 11993Senter for internasjonalisering av utdanning
24.64728 1920824.44584 18715Fylkesmannen i Vest-Agder
24.83711 14933 6.4 795 12300Direktoratet for forvaltning og IKT
24.95002 2003321.63997 18424Fylkesmannen i Nord-Trøndelag
25.11246 495427.21305 4781Konkurransetilsynet
25.65674 2212820.44936 24189Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet
26.922947 8529324.321337 87572Helsedirektoratet
27.23648 1340118.51898 10234Vox, nasjonalt fagorgan for kompetansepolitikk
27.623161 8379529.722587 75973Statens legemiddelverk
27.76373 2294128.36449 22738Fylkesmannen i Sør-Trøndelag
27.9 784 2807 0.0 0 0Jernbaneverket
29.61290 435247.01401 2976Nasjonalt organ for kvalitet i utdanningen (NOKUT)
29.86990 2338830.27263 23997Fylkesmannen i Buskerud
29.92932 977832.33439 10643Statsministerens kontor
30.3 147 485 0.0 0 0Fylkesmannen i Vest-Agder (frem til 31.12.115)
31.59472 3004728.99498 32839Fylkesmannen i Rogaland
31.81627 511234.22082 6072Datatilsynet
31.91128 352832.91302 3950Statens pensjonskasse
31.913718 4291832.212887 39921Fylkesmannen i Hordaland
32.07510 2346433.07544 22837Fylkesmannen i Vestfold
32.51116 342732.41261 3883Nasjonalbiblioteket
32.81662 505348.22689 5578Direktoratet for økonomistyring
33.16811 2056728.75041 17513Fylkesmannen i Sogn og Fjordane
33.76975 2066629.16110 20994Fylkesmannen i Finnmark
33.87254 2140233.57138 21304Finansdepartementet
34.1 387 1133 0.0 0 0Tilsynsutvalget for dommere
34.510466 3026142.77416 17342Integrerings- og mangfoldsdirektoratet
36.616005 4361940.717996 44140Finanstilsynet
36.77170 1952536.67481 20434Fylkesmannen i Østfold
40.216584 4121132.712187 37237Kystverket
40.94942 1208046.35934 12802Forsvarsdepartementet
41.413295 3205041.311805 28568Fylkesmannen i Troms
43.09595 2227543.910288 23422Arbeids- og sosialdepartementet
44.69809 2196748.09627 20021Politidirektoratet
45.225158 5561143.822379 51043Justis- og beredskapsdepartementet
49.518312 3697649.613752 27719Fylkesmannen i Nordland
49.827453 5502850.024782 49473Fylkesmannen i Oslo og Akershus
50.332997 6551339.524644 62276Direktoratet for samfunnssikkerhet og beredskap
54.411213 2060649.47519 15204Utlendingsdirektoratet
54.510338 1894839.75986 15043Statistisk sentralbyrå
54.85075 925656.04781 8528Direktoratet for nødkommunikasjon
55.47765 1399846.76278 13421Nasjonalt folkehelseinstitutt
57.61690 293170.23401 4840Statens innkrevingssentral
58.07019 1210139.23671 9352Departementenes sikkerhets- og serviceorganisasjon
66.217293 2609768.118027 26463Skattedirektoratet
69.53949 567660.12576 4284Kriminalomsorgsdirektoratet
70.816713 2358170.612556 17777Statens helsetilsyn
71.11146 161076.51160 1516Statens arbeidsmiljøinstitutt
79.29343 1179174.78328 11144Toll- og avgiftsdirektoratet
83.712231714599482.2112645137034Husbanken
85.684427 9862687.082682 94950Norges forskningsråd
91.1 609 668 0.0 0 0Direktoratet for e-helse
91.410838 1185487.110278 11798Garantiinstituttet for eksportkreditt
98.917373 17563 0.0 0 0Forbrukerrådet
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Unlocking HTC Desire HD on Linux using unruu and fastboot
+
7th July 2016
+

Yesterday, I tried to unlock a HTC Desire HD phone, and it proved +to be a slight challenge. Here is the recipe if I ever need to do it +again. It all started by me wanting to try the recipe to set up +an +hardened Android installation from the Tor project blog on a +device I had access to. It is a old mobile phone with a broken +microphone The initial idea had been to just +install +CyanogenMod on it, but did not quite find time to start on it +until a few days ago.

+ +

The unlock process is supposed to be simple: (1) Boot into the boot +loader (press volume down and power at the same time), (2) select +'fastboot' before (3) connecting the device via USB to a Linux +machine, (4) request the device identifier token by running 'fastboot +oem get_identifier_token', (5) request the device unlocking key using +the HTC developer web +site and unlock the phone using the key file emailed to you.

+ +

Unfortunately, this only work fi you have hboot version 2.00.0029 +or newer, and the device I was working on had 2.00.0027. This +apparently can be easily fixed by downloading a Windows program and +running it on your Windows machine, if you accept the terms Microsoft +require you to accept to use Windows - which I do not. So I had to +come up with a different approach. I got a lot of help from AndyCap +on #nuug, and would not have been able to get this working without +him.

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First I needed to extract the hboot firmware from +the +windows binary for HTC Desire HD downloaded as 'the RUU' from HTC. +For this there is is a github +project named unruu using libunshield. The unshield tool did not +recognise the file format, but unruu worked and extracted rom.zip, +containing the new hboot firmware and a text file describing which +devices it would work for.

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Next, I needed to get the new firmware into the device. For this I +followed some instructions +available +from HTC1Guru.com, and ran these commands as root on a Linux +machine with Debian testing:

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Interessant å se hvordan Utenriksdepartementet tilsynelatende er -blitt ekstremt mer hemmelighetsfull på tre år. I 2015 var 99,8% av -71409 dokumenter merket som unntatt offentlighet, mens i 2014 var det -44,3% av 65121 og og i 2013 var det bare 12,1% av 67828. Lurer på hva -som har skjedd. (Oppdatering 13:40: Dette er en teknisk feil -i databasen, da UD har begynt å legge inn '-' der det ikke er unntak, -mens det tidligere var et tomt felt. Skal lage ny statistikk, men det -tar noen timer å lage ny tabell. Oppdatering 15:30: Ny tabell på -plass, mer forklaring nederst i teksten.)

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Dernest kommer statistikken over hvor mange saksnummer og -dokumenter som ikke finnes i OEP (dvs. hull i saksnummer- og -dokumentnummerserien). Se tidligere omtalte bloggpost for å forstå -hvordan slike hull kan oppstå uten at det er noe galt eller -mistenkelig med det.

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0.0 0 1 0.0 0 0 0.0 0 2Valgdirektoratet
0.0 0 85 5.2 6 116 0.0 0 450Statens institutt for rusmiddelforskning
0.5 100 2125842.49849 23215 0.6 475 85333Norsk kulturråd
0.6 80 13924 1.0 154 15663 0.2 75 41603Justervesenet
1.2 20 1622 0.4 7 1568 0.6 90 15028Statistisk sentralbyrå
1.4 67 4623 1.5 74 5066 1.5 237 15762Arbeids- og sosialdepartementet
1.4 166 11932 0.9 84 9863 1.7 510 29452Direktoratet for byggkvalitet
1.4 451 32677 1.0 276 28515 0.4 298 78470Arkivverket
1.9 11 589 3.0 27 891 0.6 14 2211Statens innkrevingssentral
1.9 41 2162 2.2 44 1973 1.1 84 7583Direktoratet for mineralforvaltning med Bergmesteren for Svalbard
2.5 68 2728 4.0 99 2488 2.1 197 9393Forbrukerombudet
2.7 47 1758 0.6 8 1282 5.1 445 8359Vox, nasjonalt fagorgan for kompetansepolitikk
2.9 157 5351 3.0 129 4326 0.7 95 12763Brønnøysundregistrene
3.2 293 9121 2.0 132 6571 6.41653 24287Statens kartverk
3.5 40 1151 3.8 51 1326 6.0 275 4271Sysselmannen på Svalbard
3.6 53 1458 2.0 30 1470 1.6 155 9331Norsk Filminstitutt
3.7 313 8449 3.2 227 7092 1.3 413 31241Lotteri- og stiftelsestilsynet
3.8 645 17136 5.5 942 17213 2.91688 57442Statens legemiddelverk
4.7 353 748212.41001 8069 2.6 662 25153Norges vassdrags- og energidirektorat
4.9 940 19148 5.0 896 17781 1.61031 63978Fiskeridirektoratet
5.1 61 1206 4.4 47 1060 3.0 134 4317Statens strålevern
5.5 95 1721 6.9 126 1813 0.1 8 8231Statsministerens kontor
5.5 720 1298514.22803 19734 1.4 641 46830Direktoratet for samfunnssikkerhet og beredskap
5.7 252 4425 4.9 228 4638 1.8 298 16197Barne-, likestillings- og inkluderingsdepartementet
5.9 207 3534 5.2 207 3997 2.3 230 9930Klima- og miljødepartementet
5.9 731 12360 6.6 976 14712 2.91174 39309Miljødirektoratet
6.2 472 7629 7.5 496 6649 2.21011 44077Utdanningsdirektoratet
6.5 434 6680 3.2 202 6250 1.5 364 23587Nasjonal kommunikasjonsmyndighet
6.6 19 287 6.9 28 408 6.5 122 1742Landbruksdirektoratet Alta
6.8 400 5867 9.0 707 7835 3.0 761 24952Kommunal- og moderniseringsdepartementet
7.5 496 658713.51324 9785 1.8 509 27790Nærings- og fiskeridepartementet
7.6 938 12297 6.6 741 11218 5.63412 57624Norges forskningsråd
8.2 122 148410.2 169 1664 6.8 680 9291Direktoratet for utviklingssamarbeid
8.2 705 8648 9.3 843 9040 3.11269 40179Justis- og beredskapsdepartementet
8.6 97 1133 5.8 78 1336 6.7 179 2511Medietilsynet
8.6 425 494113.6 510 375811.42721 21076Integrerings- og mangfoldsdirektoratet
8.7 491 5662 6.8 309 4514 7.11712 22269Luftfartstilsynet
9.0 193 2134 7.6 125 1650 9.41442 13937Statens helsetilsyn
9.3 435 4690 7.6 395 5216 1.3 188 13881Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet
9.6 142 1477 5.5 81 1486 2.0 155 7737Petroleumstilsynet
9.6 169 1760 6.9 151 2181 1.2 67 5418Landbruks- og matdepartementet
9.7 473 489011.0 594 5398 2.1 432 19704Kulturdepartementet
10.0 2 2017.4 4 2311.2 14 111Kompetansesenter for distriktsutvikling
10.1 49 485 6.1 30 49213.2 486 3187Konkurransetilsynet
10.2 133 130011.5 201 1745 5.3 168 3012Språkrådet
10.41471 14109 9.81165 11893 3.41976 55929Helsedirektoratet
10.5 267 2535 7.3 203 2787 4.1 344 8104Riksantikvaren - Direktoratet for kulturminneforvaltning
10.6 100 941 9.8 95 973 5.7 358 5875Utlendingsnemnda
10.7 58 541 9.4 51 542 1.6 22 1370Statens arbeidsmiljøinstitutt
11.0 144 1314 6.9 102 1478 9.5 466 4435Statens jernbanetilsyn
11.4 487 4281 7.0 189 2700 1.1 253 22570Samferdselsdepartementet
12.5 622 495710.1 497 4902 7.91407 16479Politidirektoratet
12.7 73 57321.1 107 50714.8 327 1877Nasjonalbiblioteket
12.7 738 5829 8.7 519 5949 2.6 414 15481Finansdepartementet
13.0 176 1352 6.7 81 1204 1.6 120 7347Oljedirektoratet
13.9 856 614510.6 679 6383 5.71112 18326Kunnskapsdepartementet
14.1 715 507310.3 609 593339.515199 23238Kystverket
14.3 240 1676 2.2 33 1478 1.9 68 3459Datatilsynet
14.3 319 222313.0 301 2309 1.1 65 5903Olje- og energidepartementet
14.5 24 166 0.0 0 017.4 59 281Norsk Romsenter
14.51945 13404 8.71096 12632 5.01962 37143Finanstilsynet
15.1 87 57821.6 94 435 2.8 66 2292Norges geologiske undersøkelse
15.2 156 102812.5 137 1097 2.7 312 11389Direktoratet for forvaltning og IKT
15.9 501 315712.7 379 2996 6.5 550 7966Nasjonalt folkehelseinstitutt
16.1 58 36013.8 48 348 8.2 653 7294Senter for internasjonalisering av utdanning
17.1 692 4040 9.2 285 3085 6.1 484 7439Forsvarsdepartementet
17.8 161 90424.9 255 1023 9.7 616 5752Direktoratet for nødkommunikasjon
17.81278 716218.71359 7269 2.0 458 21904Fylkesmannen i Troms
17.9 68 379 7.6 27 355 1.9 79 3981Norsk Akkreditering
19.3 878 455719.6 930 4737 2.9 378 12737Fylkesmannen i Sogn og Fjordane
19.61645 839421.01821 8659 6.41621 23898Fylkesmannen i Nordland
21.0 72 343 0.0 0 0 1.0 10 950Direktoratet for e-helse
21.01102 523739.62409 607930.48669 19865Forsvarsbygg
23.0 384 167127.4 544 1986 3.6 251 6633Statens lånekasse for utdanning
23.1 216 93723.5 195 829 2.6 110 4116Direktoratet for økonomistyring
23.7 274 115426.0 379 1456 2.5 206 7995Departementenes sikkerhets- og serviceorganisasjon
24.1 32 13319.8 24 121 4.4 53 1149Kunst i offentlige rom
26.014552 5606763.667940106802 7.612846155665Arbeidstilsynet
28.1 460 163527.2 401 1475 8.3 481 5348Domstoladministrasjonen
31.2 815 260834.91267 3627 4.1 598 14039Statsbygg
32.1 88 27421.6 50 232 5.3 55 974Fredskorpset
32.9 267 81233.0 232 702 8.1 239 2717Nasjonalt organ for kvalitet i utdanningen (NOKUT)
33.01665 504629.01520 5249 5.9 968 15372Fylkesmannen i Finnmark
33.3 506 152127.4 421 1538 5.7 406 6687Havforskningsinstituttet
34.024084 7077553.839567 73495 0.5 515109638Landbruksdirektoratet Oslo
37.96306 1663838.46123 15947 1.3 443 34527Fylkesmannen i Hordaland
38.03267 860039.83060 7698 4.3 738 16551Fylkesmannen i Nord-Trøndelag
40.13359 837035.93135 8744 9.51603 15300Fylkesmannen i Oppland
41.83052 729843.03285 7645 0.8 142 16847Fylkesmannen i Vestfold
42.02260 537739.42115 5365 2.3 296 12662Fylkesmannen i Telemark
42.02677 637342.22826 6700 3.5 425 11560Fylkesmannen i Vest-Agder
42.22302 546042.72283 5350 2.1 217 10030Fylkesmannen i Aust-Agder
42.33249 768842.53359 7911 3.6 602 15959Fylkesmannen i Møre og Romsdal
43.14750 1101329.01435 4944 4.7 925 18789Utlendingsdirektoratet
45.3 511 112934.1 415 121714.9 784 4468Garantiinstituttet for eksportkreditt
48.44663 962750.55064 10024 4.9 869 16950Fylkesmannen i Sør-Trøndelag
49.14160 848048.74261 8747 1.0 170 16593Fylkesmannen i Buskerud
49.98296 1661726.03844 14785 1.7 696 41263Utenriksdepartementet
51.47375 1435343.05492 12773 6.01457 22780Fylkesmannen i Rogaland
51.54432 861051.44472 8703 3.8 494 12494Fylkesmannen i Hedmark
54.34718 868952.54648 8852 3.9 567 13903Fylkesmannen i Østfold
60.26147 1021699.88133 8153 4.01010 24464Forbrukerrådet
60.945659 75035 3.5 926 26466 5.75706 94908Husbanken
62.315943 2559559.414766 24867 6.62978 42345Fylkesmannen i Oslo og Akershus
76.56354 830987.213391 1536312.31011 7202Barne-, ungdoms- og familiedirektoratet
78.820488725996369.6109962157962 2.93765128230Statens vegvesen Region øst
82.578652 9534078.554063 68912 2.41358 55810Sjøfartsdirektoratet
83.18088 973394.67535 796811.3 953 7468Jernbaneverket
85.122126525997280.9127825157956 2.22345102032Statens vegvesen Region vest
86.622504125995678.4123819157956 3.22699 81896Statens vegvesen Region sør
89.91466 163096.31381 143419.6 267 1093Tilsynsutvalget for dommere
89.92498 278095.44656 4883 1.8 18 996Landinfo
91.223718825994487.1137656157962 2.61480 55993Statens vegvesen Region midt
91.75198 567199.15201 5247 3.3 25 744Fylkesmannen i Aust-Agder (frem til 31.12.15)
93.424273525993090.7143324157956 3.81949 48772Statens vegvesen Region nord
96.06190 644699.46117 6157 1.9 7 354Fylkesmannen i Vest-Agder (frem til 31.12.115)
97.223095 2376696.923911 2466642.01746 2409Kriminalomsorgsdirektoratet
97.338602 3967998.260831 61922 3.1 83 2626Statens pensjonskasse
97.425308025976896.0151565157870 9.02294 23257Statens vegvesen Vegdirektoratet
97.884989 8686597.210145210433212.2 983 7089Toll- og avgiftsdirektoratet
98.01542 157399.1 889 897 5.7 4 66Innstillingsrådet for dommere
99.43934 395799.6 944 94852.9 37 33Barne- og likestillingsdepartementet
99.61199296120439499.4990362995873 3.5 624 17298Skattedirektoratet
+

+adb reboot-bootloader
+fastboot oem rebootRUU
+fastboot flash zip rom.zip
+fastboot flash zip rom.zip
+fastboot reboot
+

-

Til sist er statistikken over hvor stor andel av utgående, -inngående, og andre dokumenter som blir journalført mer enn 180 dager -etter dokumentets dato, dvs. hvor stor andel som blir journalført -ekstremt sent for utgående og interne dokumenter, mens det for -innkommende like gjerne kan være at det tok lang tid før de ble -mottatt.

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UtgåendeInnkommendeAnnet
%# > 180d liggetidTotalt%# > 180d liggetidTotalt%# > 180d liggetidTotalt
0.0 0 1 0.0 0 1 0.0 0 0Valgdirektoratet
0.0 0 17 0.0 0 13 0.0 0 0Innstillingsrådet for dommere
0.0 0 20 0.7 2 258 0.0 0 0Kompetansesenter for distriktsutvikling
0.0 0 50 0.0 0 156 0.0 0 0Norsk Romsenter
0.0 0 14410 0.0 0 20625 0.0 0 1941Fylkesmannen i Nordland
0.0 0 19475 0.0 0 33158 0.0 0 2395Fylkesmannen i Oslo og Akershus
0.0 2 6513 0.0 2 8366 0.0 1 2684Forbrukerrådet
0.0 2 14848 0.0 12 13720 0.1 2 1709Lotteri- og stiftelsestilsynet
0.0 3 3242 0.1 10 6728 0.0 0 0Petroleumstilsynet
0.0 35 39417 1.8 55 3023 4.1 29 699Justervesenet
0.1 1 563 0.1 1 568 0.0 0 2Tilsynsutvalget for dommere
0.1 2 1412 0.1 2 1889 0.0 0 2Medietilsynet
0.1 3 1922 0.2 7 3032 0.0 0 0Konkurransetilsynet
0.1 3 2861 0.2 11 4625 0.0 0 0Sysselmannen på Svalbard
0.1 4 2019 0.3 10 308628.5 2 7Datatilsynet
0.1 10 6724 0.0 5 11621 0.0 0 1180Fylkesmannen i Østfold
0.1 15 7701 0.2 19 7959 3.0 2 66Brønnøysundregistrene
0.1 23 13317 0.1 33 16601 0.0 0 2Direktoratet for byggkvalitet
0.1 207106179 0.3 285 73027 1.0 6 571Arbeidstilsynet
0.2 4 1958 1.9 46 2394 0.0 0 0Nasjonalt organ for kvalitet i utdanningen (NOKUT)
0.2 6 2924 0.1 10 6854 0.0 0 0Statsministerens kontor
0.2 42 14193 0.1 46 26329 7.4 179 2396Fylkesmannen i Hordaland
0.3 11 3042 0.1 8 6898 0.2 1 378Forbrukerombudet
0.3 12 3792 0.0 5 636412.0 25 208Direktoratet for mineralforvaltning med Bergmesteren for Svalbard
0.3 13 3468 0.9 62 6883 1.4 25 1729Forsvarsdepartementet
0.3 15 4463 0.5 40 7903 1.2 2 156Statens jernbanetilsyn
0.3 19 5470 0.7 104 13525 6.5 68 1038Fylkesmannen i Nord-Trøndelag
0.3 130 36848 0.3 148 46603 7.1 183 2545Arkivverket
0.3 130 38432 1.6 691 42125 1.5 442 27727Statens vegvesen Region sør
0.4 26 6320 0.1 21 12884 0.0 0 4Fylkesmannen i Vest-Agder
0.4 29 6530 2.4 362 14872 0.0 0 0Finansdepartementet
0.4 35 7248 0.4 58 12097 2.2 30 1321Fylkesmannen i Finnmark
0.4 64 14367 0.4 128 26712 7.0 20 283Luftfartstilsynet
0.5 6 1090 1.7 25 1415 0.0 0 0Norges geologiske undersøkelse
0.5 30 5810 1.0 71 6812 1.7 14 779Vox, nasjonalt fagorgan for kompetansepolitikk
0.5 38 7595 0.6 93 1508317.4 51 293Fylkesmannen i Møre og Romsdal
0.5 321 63780 0.2 135 51738 2.0 22 1052Landbruksdirektoratet Oslo
0.6 21 3049 0.8 71 8356 0.0 0 0Oljedirektoratet
0.6 58 8800 0.6 123 20412 1.9 163 8341Nærings- og fiskeridepartementet
0.7 56 7339 1.1 90 812525.8 458 1774Norsk Filminstitutt
0.7 191 26033 0.7 307 42834 2.1 215 10181Fiskeridirektoratet
0.7 357 44844 0.5 301 52202 1.9 590 29606Statens vegvesen Region vest
0.8 2 239 0.0 0 246 0.0 0 0Fylkesmannen i Vest-Agder (frem til 31.12.115)
0.8 119 14631 0.3 39 1246512.9 217 1681Nasjonal kommunikasjonsmyndighet
0.9 36 3886 2.0 94 4505 0.0 0 0Statens strålevern
0.9 41 4128 1.5 141 9101 7.6 4 52Olje- og energidepartementet
0.9 76 7829 0.6 95 14804 4.2 35 831Fylkesmannen i Vestfold
0.9 385 41153 0.5 330 62989 0.9 404 42661Norsk kulturråd
1.0 37 3538 0.2 19 6906 0.0 0 4Landbruks- og matdepartementet
1.1 753 64926 0.6 433 67975 2.3 747 32005Statens vegvesen Region øst
1.2 33 2558 2.0 97 4643 0.0 0 46Domstoladministrasjonen
1.2 49 3849 0.4 20 4078 6.3 31 485Statens lånekasse for utdanning
1.2 91 7120 0.6 83 13700 0.0 0 0Samferdselsdepartementet
1.2 179 14775 0.5 167 28844 0.0 0 0Finanstilsynet
1.3 86 6175 0.3 39 11738 1.8 82 4362Arbeids- og sosialdepartementet
1.3 101 7741 0.8 115 14226 0.0 0 0Politidirektoratet
1.3 229 16626 0.8 264 31782 3.9 283 7203Justis- og beredskapsdepartementet
1.4 13 873 1.5 23 1467 0.0 0 0Kunst i offentlige rom
1.4 28 2000 1.0 26 2446 7.8 16 205Språkrådet
1.4 146 10001 0.6 132 19008 2.9 31 1038Fylkesmannen i Rogaland
1.4 176 12255 0.3 64 18762 9.1 95 1033Fylkesmannen i Troms
1.5 137 8801 2.2 190 857810.7 169 1569Statistisk sentralbyrå
1.5 298 19717 2.5 833 3231311.0 637 5748Norges vassdrags- og energidirektorat
1.5 376 24323 0.4 119 24404 3.5 606 16915Statens vegvesen Region nord
1.5 424 26628 0.9 268 29189 3.5 623 17623Statens vegvesen Region midt
1.7 79 4582 8.5 431 5070 6.6 142 2139Toll- og avgiftsdirektoratet
1.7 469 26133 3.0 923 3019520.51891 9185Direktoratet for samfunnssikkerhet og beredskap
1.8 23 1272 2.9 64 2155 0.0 0 0Nasjonalbiblioteket
1.9 150 7763 1.3 202 14603 4.8 50 1022Fylkesmannen i Buskerud
2.0 25 1217 1.3 21 1556 3.1 13 410Landbruksdirektoratet Alta
2.0 136 6656 1.7 97 5480 9.3 261 2797Direktoratet for forvaltning og IKT
2.0 263 12584 0.8 113 13273 3.7 484 12850Statens vegvesen Vegdirektoratet
2.1 184 8700 0.3 68 17957 1.5 117 7668Kommunal- og moderniseringsdepartementet
2.3 65 2777 1.6 71 4405 6.9 58 831Utlendingsnemnda
2.3 118 4986 0.2 30 10584 1.1 11 920Fylkesmannen i Hedmark
2.4 26 1068 1.2 21 1640 1.7 4 223Statens innkrevingssentral
2.5 101 3979 6.7 354 5219 8.6 251 2903Departementenes sikkerhets- og serviceorganisasjon
2.5 119 4698 3.0 134 443426.6 123 461Norsk Akkreditering
2.6 45 1705 0.6 15 2438 0.4 7 1533Kriminalomsorgsdirektoratet
2.6 140 5260 1.4 165 1149914.7 212 1435Klima- og miljødepartementet
2.6 172 6552 0.6 88 13413 4.0 168 4138Barne-, likestillings- og inkluderingsdepartementet
2.7 63 2292 9.3 259 2761 0.0 0 0Direktoratet for økonomistyring
2.9 22 741 1.4 13 869 0.0 0 0Statens arbeidsmiljøinstitutt
2.91766 59502 3.72457 66026 3.5 729 20466Husbanken
3.0 198 6525 0.3 36 10925 9.1 48 525Fylkesmannen i Telemark
3.2 92 2824 1.6 126 7663 8.3 114 1367Garantiinstituttet for eksportkreditt
3.2 113 3508 1.2 98 7916 0.0 0 0Havforskningsinstituttet
3.2 178 5477 0.5 48 926413.3 79 593Fylkesmannen i Aust-Agder
3.2 211 6542 2.3 178 7678 0.0 0 0Barne-, ungdoms- og familiedirektoratet
3.2 499 15144 2.2 562 24560 2.4 767 31705Utenriksdepartementet
3.3 266 7831 0.3 44 1171712.5 128 1019Fylkesmannen i Sogn og Fjordane
3.3 275 8151 2.7 323 1162916.61052 6317Skattedirektoratet
3.4 887 25797 1.6 569 34780 0.0 0 0Miljødirektoratet
3.41378 39669 1.6 847 49862 2.9 267 9095Norges forskningsråd
3.6 277 7638 0.3 26 847311.8 888 7470Statens helsetilsyn
3.6 291 8056 1.1 110 967713.7 394 2873Utlendingsdirektoratet
3.7 305 8158 2.9 366 1230012.8 475 3692Direktoratet for utviklingssamarbeid
3.7 730 19384 1.1 242 20898 5.5 52 929Kystverket
4.2 271 6327 1.3 174 12490 0.0 0 0Riksantikvaren - Direktoratet for kulturminneforvaltning
4.3 19 432 0.0 0 386 7.8 4 51Fylkesmannen i Aust-Agder (frem til 31.12.15)
4.4 458 10325 3.4 623 1814114.31003 7001Forsvarsbygg
4.6 22 47611.4 198 172215.4 94 609Jernbaneverket
4.6 774 16824 8.41329 1572315.6 756 4838Statens kartverk
5.1 85 1635 1.4 27 1892 0.0 0 1Statens pensjonskasse
5.1 339 6602 5.1 381 7396 0.0 0 0Nasjonalt folkehelseinstitutt
5.2 377 7225 0.7 112 15036 9.8 67 680Fylkesmannen i Sør-Trøndelag
5.7 376 6526 0.3 59 15602 0.0 0 0Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet
6.11645 26666 0.7 220 3101715.3 665 4340Utdanningsdirektoratet
6.2 470 7517 0.2 51 19868 0.0 0 0Kulturdepartementet
6.7 48 706 7.6 74 968 0.0 0 0Fredskorpset
6.8 19 279 4.6 20 429 4.7 5 106Statens institutt for rusmiddelforskning
6.92173 31077 3.11342 4302532.93691 11191Helsedirektoratet
7.41053 14189 6.0 764 1263832.51119 3434Integrerings- og mangfoldsdirektoratet
8.1 322 3961 7.3 271 3675 8.7 141 1620Direktoratet for nødkommunikasjon
8.6 51 590 6.8 12 17423.7 86 362Landinfo
10.81034 9557 1.4 238 16191 9.5 2 21Kunnskapsdepartementet
13.0 764 5873 5.5 417 745142.8 6 14Senter for internasjonalisering av utdanning
14.64088 27956 0.3 171 43364 6.9 402 5825Sjøfartsdirektoratet
20.24464 22016 6.63076 46377 2.3 366 15402Statens legemiddelverk
24.35085 20862 9.51486 1554538.74368 11263Statsbygg
28.01859 6637 3.2 488 1521921.6 230 1062Fylkesmannen i Oppland
32.5 41 12641.7 172 41260.0 78 130Direktoratet for e-helse
+

The flash command apparently need to be done twice to take effect, +as the first is just preparations and the second one do the flashing. +The adb command is just to get to the boot loader menu, so turning the +device on while holding volume down and the power button should work +too.

+ +

With the new hboot version in place I could start following the +instructions on the HTC developer web site. I got the device token +like this:

+ +

+fastboot oem get_identifier_token 2>&1 | sed 's/(bootloader) //'
+
-

Jeg lurer virkelig på hvordan så mange i det offentlige klarer å -ikke journalføre utgående dokumenter med en gang de gjøres ferdig. Er -det manglende opplæring, vanskelige systemer, vond vilje eller noe -helt annet som er årsaken? Det hadde vært interessant å finne ut om -det var noen fellestrekk for dokumenter som ikke blir journalført før -det er gått et halvt år.

- -

Oppdatering 2016-04-07: En nærmere undersøkelse av -OEP-oppføringene til Utenriksdepartementet viste at det var en teknisk -feil i måten jeg laget statistikken, der alle oppføringer med '-' i -unntaksgrunnlagsfeltet ble talt opp som unntatt offentlighet. Det -var UD ikke alene om. Det viste seg å gjelde Barne-, likestillings- -og inkluderingsdepartementet (4), Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet -(3525), Landbruks- og matdepartementet (1753), Nærings- og -fiskeridepartementet (11780), Nærings- og handelsdepartementet (7), -Nærings- og handelsdepartementet (frem til 31.12.13) (10417) og -Utenriksdepartementet (78798) også. Antall påvirkede oppføringer står -i parentes. Jeg har fikset problemet og oppdatert tabellen for -hemmelighold over. Oppføringene for Nærings- og handelsdepartementet, -Landbruks- og matdepartementet, Utenriksdepartementet og Helse- og -omsorgsdepartementet fikk ny plassering i lista.

+

And once I got the unlock code via email, I could use it like +this:

+ +

+fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
+

+ +

And with that final step in place, the phone was unlocked and I +could start stuffing the software of my own choosing into the device. +So far I only inserted a replacement recovery image to wipe the phone +before I start. We will see what happen next. Perhaps I should +install Debian on it. :)

- Tags: norsk, nuug, offentlig innsyn. + Tags: bootsystem, debian, english, opphavsrett, sikkerhet.
@@ -641,120 +263,112 @@ omsorgsdepartementet fikk ny plassering i lista.

-
syslog-trusted-timestamp - chain of trusted timestamps for your syslog
-
2nd April 2016
-

Two years ago, I had -a -look at trusted timestamping options available, and among -other things noted a still open -bug in the tsget script -included in openssl that made it harder than necessary to use openssl -as a trusted timestamping client. A few days ago I was told -the Norwegian government office DIFI is -close to releasing their own trusted timestamp service, and in the -process I was happy to learn about a replacement for the tsget script -using only curl:

- -

-openssl ts -query -data "/etc/shells" -cert -sha256 -no_nonce \
-  | curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/timestamp-query" \
-         --data-binary "@-" http://zeitstempel.dfn.de > etc-shells.tsr
-openssl ts -reply -text -in etc-shells.tsr
-

- -

This produces a binary timestamp file (etc-shells.tsr) which can be -used to verify that the content of the file /etc/shell with the -calculated sha256 hash existed at the point in time when the request -was made. The last command extract the content of the etc-shells.tsr -in human readable form. The idea behind such timestamp is to be able -to prove using cryptography that the content of a file have not -changed since the file was stamped.

- -

To verify that the file on disk match the public key signature in -the timestamp file, run the following commands. It make sure you have -the required certificate for the trusted timestamp service available -and use it to compare the file content with the timestamp. In -production, one should of course use a better method to verify the -service certificate.

- -

-wget -O ca-cert.txt https://pki.pca.dfn.de/global-services-ca/pub/cacert/chain.txt
-openssl ts -verify -data /etc/shells -in etc-shells.tsr -CAfile ca-cert.txt -text
-

- -

Wikipedia have a lot more information about -trusted -Timestamping and -linked -timestamping, and there are several trusted timestamping services -around, both as commercial services and as free and public services. -Among the latter is -the -zeitstempel.dfn.de service mentioned above and -freetsa.org service linked to from the -wikipedia web site. I believe the DIFI service should show up on -https://tsa.difi.no, but it is not available to the public at the -moment. I hope this will change when it is into production. The -RFC 3161 trusted -timestamping protocol standard is even implemented in LibreOffice, -Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat, making it possible to verify when -a document was created.

- -

I would find it useful to be able to use such trusted timestamp -service to make it possible to verify that my stored syslog files have -not been tampered with. This is not a new idea. I found one example -implemented on the Endian network appliances where -the -configuration of such feature was described in 2012.

- -

But I could not find any free implementation of such feature when I -searched, so I decided to try to -build -a prototype named syslog-trusted-timestamp. My idea is to -generate a timestamp of the old log files after they are rotated, and -store the timestamp in the new log file just after rotation. This -will form a chain that would make it possible to see if any old log -files are tampered with. But syslog is bad at handling kilobytes of -binary data, so I decided to base64 encode the timestamp and add an ID -and line sequence numbers to the base64 data to make it possible to -reassemble the timestamp file again. To use it, simply run it like -this: - -

-syslog-trusted-timestamp /path/to/list-of-log-files
-

- -

This will send a timestamp from one or more timestamp services (not -yet decided nor implemented) for each listed file to the syslog using -logger(1). To verify the timestamp, the same program is used with the ---verify option:

- -

-syslog-trusted-timestamp --verify /path/to/log-file /path/to/log-with-timestamp
-

- -

The verification step is not yet well designed. The current -implementation depend on the file path being unique and unchanging, -and this is not a solid assumption. It also uses process number as -timestamp ID, and this is bound to create ID collisions. I hope to -have time to come up with a better way to handle timestamp IDs and -verification later.

- -

Please check out -the -prototype for syslog-trusted-timestamp on github and send -suggestions and improvement, or let me know if there already exist a -similar system for timestamping logs already to allow me to join -forces with others with the same interest.

- -

As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my -activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address -15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b.

+
How to use the Signal app if you only have a land line (ie no mobile phone)
+
3rd July 2016
+

For a while now, I have wanted to test +the Signal app, as it is +said to provide end to end encrypted communication and several of my +friends and family are already using it. As I by choice do not own a +mobile phone, this proved to be harder than expected. And I wanted to +have the source of the client and know that it was the code used on my +machine. But yesterday I managed to get it working. I used the +Github source, compared it to the source in +the +Signal Chrome app available from the Chrome web store, applied +patches to use the production Signal servers, started the app and +asked for the hidden "register without a smart phone" form. Here is +the recipe how I did it.

+ +

First, I fetched the Signal desktop source from Github, using + +

+git clone https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop.git
+
+ +

Next, I patched the source to use the production servers, to be +able to talk to other Signal users:

+ +
+cat <<EOF | patch -p0
+diff -ur ./js/background.js userdata/Default/Extensions/bikioccmkafdpakkkcpdbppfkghcmihk/0.15.0_0/js/background.js
+--- ./js/background.js  2016-06-29 13:43:15.630344628 +0200
++++ userdata/Default/Extensions/bikioccmkafdpakkkcpdbppfkghcmihk/0.15.0_0/js/background.js    2016-06-29 14:06:29.530300934 +0200
+@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@
+         });
+     });
+ 
+-    var SERVER_URL = 'https://textsecure-service-staging.whispersystems.org';
+-    var ATTACHMENT_SERVER_URL = 'https://whispersystems-textsecure-attachments-staging.s3.amazonaws.com';
++    var SERVER_URL = 'https://textsecure-service-ca.whispersystems.org:4433';
++    var ATTACHMENT_SERVER_URL = 'https://whispersystems-textsecure-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com';
+     var messageReceiver;
+     window.getSocketStatus = function() {
+         if (messageReceiver) {
+diff -ur ./js/expire.js userdata/Default/Extensions/bikioccmkafdpakkkcpdbppfkghcmihk/0.15.0_0/js/expire.js
+--- ./js/expire.js      2016-06-29 13:43:15.630344628 +0200
++++ userdata/Default/Extensions/bikioccmkafdpakkkcpdbppfkghcmihk/0.15.0_0/js/expire.js2016-06-29 14:06:29.530300934 +0200
+@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+ ;(function() {
+     'use strict';
+-    var BUILD_EXPIRATION = 0;
++    var BUILD_EXPIRATION = 1474492690000;
+ 
+     window.extension = window.extension || {};
+ 
+EOF
+
+ +

The first part is changing the servers, and the second is updating +an expiration timestamp. This timestamp need to be updated regularly. +It is set 90 days in the future by the build process (Gruntfile.js). +The value is seconds since 1970 times 1000, as far as I can tell.

+ +

Based on a tip and good help from the #nuug IRC channel, I wrote a +script to launch Signal in Chromium.

+ +
+#!/bin/sh
+cd $(dirname $0)
+mkdir -p userdata
+exec chromium \
+  --proxy-server="socks://localhost:9050" \
+  --user-data-dir=`pwd`/userdata --load-and-launch-app=`pwd`
+
+ +

The script start the app and configure Chromium to use the Tor +SOCKS5 proxy to make sure those controlling the Signal servers (today +Amazon and Whisper Systems) as well as those listening on the lines +will have a harder time location my laptop based on the Signal +connections if they use source IP address.

+ +

When the script starts, one need to follow the instructions under +"Standalone Registration" in the CONTRIBUTING.md file in the git +repository. I right clicked on the Signal window to get up the +Chromium debugging tool, visited the 'Console' tab and wrote +'extension.install("standalone")' on the console prompt to get the +registration form. Then I entered by land line phone number and +pressed 'Call'. 5 seconds later the phone rang and a robot voice +repeated the verification code three times. After entering the number +into the verification code field in the form, I could start using +Signal from my laptop. + +

As far as I can tell, The Signal app will leak who is talking to +whom and thus who know who to those controlling the central server, +but such leakage is hard to avoid with a centrally controlled server +setup. It is something to keep in mind when using Signal - the +content of your chats are harder to intercept, but the meta data +exposing your contact network is available to people you do not know. +So better than many options, but not great. And sadly the usage is +connected to my land line, thus allowing those controlling the server +to associate it to my home and person. I would prefer it if only +those I knew could tell who I was on Signal. There are options +avoiding such information leakage, but most of my friends are not +using them, so I am stuck with Signal for now.

- Tags: english, sikkerhet. + Tags: debian, english, sikkerhet, surveillance.
@@ -762,61 +376,46 @@ activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
-
Full battery stats collector is now available in Debian
-
23rd March 2016
-

Since this morning, the battery-stats package in Debian include an -extended collector that will collect the complete battery history for -later processing and graphing. The original collector store the -battery level as percentage of last full level, while the new -collector also record battery vendor, model, serial number, design -full level, last full level and current battery level. This make it -possible to predict the lifetime of the battery as well as visualise -the energy flow when the battery is charging or discharging.

- -

The new tools are available in /usr/share/battery-stats/ -in the version 0.5.1 package in unstable. Get the new battery level graph -and lifetime prediction by running: - -

-/usr/share/battery-stats/battery-stats-graph /var/log/battery-stats.csv
-

- -

Or select the 'Battery Level Graph' from your application menu.

- -

The flow in/out of the battery can be seen by running (no menu -entry yet):

- -

-/usr/share/battery-stats/battery-stats-graph-flow
-

- -

I'm not quite happy with the way the data is visualised, at least -when there are few data points. The graphs look a bit better with a -few years of data.

- -

A while back one important feature I use in the battery stats -collector broke in Debian. The scripts in -/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/ were no longer executed. I -suspect it happened when Jessie started using systemd, but I do not -know. The issue is reported as -bug #818649 against -pm-utils. I managed to work around it by adding an udev rule to call -the collector script every time the power connector is connected and -disconnected. With this fix in place it was finally time to make a -new release of the package, and get it into Debian.

- -

If you are interested in how your laptop battery is doing, please -check out the -battery-stats -in Debian unstable, or rebuild it on Jessie to get it working on -Debian stable. :) The upstream source is available from -github. -As always, patches are very welcome.

+
The new "best" multimedia player in Debian?
+
6th June 2016
+

When I set out a few weeks ago to figure out +which +multimedia player in Debian claimed to support most file formats / +MIME types, I was a bit surprised how varied the sets of MIME types +the various players claimed support for. The range was from 55 to 130 +MIME types. I suspect most media formats are supported by all +players, but this is not really reflected in the MimeTypes values in +their desktop files. There are probably also some bogus MIME types +listed, but it is hard to identify which one this is.

+ +

Anyway, in the mean time I got in touch with upstream for some of +the players suggesting to add more MIME types to their desktop files, +and decided to spend some time myself improving the situation for my +favorite media player VLC. The fixes for VLC entered Debian unstable +yesterday. The complete list of MIME types can be seen on the +Multimedia +player MIME type support status Debian wiki page.

+ +

The new "best" multimedia player in Debian? It is VLC, followed by +totem, parole, kplayer, gnome-mpv, mpv, smplayer, mplayer-gui and +kmplayer. I am sure some of the other players desktop files support +several of the formats currently listed as working only with vlc, +toten and parole.

+ +

A sad observation is that only 14 MIME types are listed as +supported by all the tested multimedia players in Debian in their +desktop files: audio/mpeg, audio/vnd.rn-realaudio, audio/x-mpegurl, +audio/x-ms-wma, audio/x-scpls, audio/x-wav, video/mp4, video/mpeg, +video/quicktime, video/vnd.rn-realvideo, video/x-matroska, +video/x-ms-asf, video/x-ms-wmv and video/x-msvideo. Personally I find +it sad that video/ogg and video/webm is not supported by all the media +players in Debian. As far as I can tell, all of them can handle both +formats.

- Tags: debian, english. + Tags: debian, debian edu, english, multimedia, video.
@@ -824,109 +423,118 @@ As always, patches are very welcome.

-
UsingQR - "Electronic" paper invoices using JSON and QR codes
-
19th March 2016
-

Back in 2013 I proposed -a -way to make paper and PDF invoices easier to process electronically by -adding a QR code with the key information about the invoice. I -suggested using vCard field definition, to get some standard format -for name and address, but any format would work. I did not do -anything about the proposal, but hoped someone one day would make -something like it. It would make it possible to efficiently send -machine readable invoices directly between seller and buyer.

- -

This was the background when I came across a proposal and -specification from the web based accounting and invoicing supplier -Visma in Sweden called -UsingQR. Their PDF invoices contain -a QR code with the key information of the invoice in JSON format. -This is the typical content of a QR code following the UsingQR -specification (based on a real world example, some numbers replaced to -get a more bogus entry). I've reformatted the JSON to make it easier -to read. Normally this is all on one long line:

- -

-{
- "vh":500.00,
- "vm":0,
- "vl":0,
- "uqr":1,
- "tp":1,
- "nme":"Din Leverandør",
- "cc":"NO",
- "cid":"997912345 MVA",
- "iref":"12300001",
- "idt":"20151022",
- "ddt":"20151105",
- "due":2500.0000,
- "cur":"NOK",
- "pt":"BBAN",
- "acc":"17202612345",
- "bc":"BIENNOK1",
- "adr":"0313 OSLO"
-}
-

- -

The interpretation of the fields can be found in the -format -specification (revision 2 from june 2014). The format seem to -have most of the information needed to handle accounting and payment -of invoices, at least the fields I have needed so far here in -Norway.

- -

Unfortunately, the site and document do not mention anything about -the patent, trademark and copyright status of the format and the -specification. Because of this, I asked the people behind it back in -November to clarify. Ann-Christine Savlid (ann-christine.savlid (at) -visma.com) replied that Visma had not applied for patent or trademark -protection for this format, and that there were no copyright based -usage limitations for the format. I urged her to make sure this was -explicitly written on the web pages and in the specification, but -unfortunately this has not happened yet. So I guess if there is -submarine patents, hidden trademarks or a will to sue for copyright -infringements, those starting to use the UsingQR format might be at -risk, but if this happen there is some legal defense in the fact that -the people behind the format claimed it was safe to do so. At least -with patents, there is always -a -chance of getting sued...

- -

I also asked if they planned to maintain the format in an -independent standard organization to give others more confidence that -they would participate in the standardization process on equal terms -with Visma, but they had no immediate plans for this. Their plan was -to work with banks to try to get more users of the format, and -evaluate the way forward if the format proved to be popular. I hope -they conclude that using an open standard organisation like -IETF is the correct place to -maintain such specification.

- -

Update 2016-03-20: Via Twitter I became aware of -some comments -about this blog post that had several useful links and references to -similar systems. In the Czech republic, the Czech Banking Association -standard #26, with short name SPAYD, uses QR codes with payment -information. More information is available from the Wikipedia page on -Short -Payment Descriptor. And in Germany, there is a system named -BezahlCode, -(specification -v1.8 2013-12-05 available as PDF), which uses QR codes with -URL-like formatting using "bank:" as the URI schema/protocol to -provide the payment information. There is also the -ZUGFeRD -file format that perhaps could be transfered using QR codes, but I am -not sure if it is done already. Last, in Bolivia there are reports -that tax information since november 2014 need to be printed in QR -format on invoices. I have not been able to track down a -specification for this format, because of my limited language skill -sets.

+
A program should be able to open its own files on Linux
+
5th June 2016
+

Many years ago, when koffice was fresh and with few users, I +decided to test its presentation tool when making the slides for a +talk I was giving for NUUG on Japhar, a free Java virtual machine. I +wrote the first draft of the slides, saved the result and went to bed +the day before I would give the talk. The next day I took a plane to +the location where the meeting should take place, and on the plane I +started up koffice again to polish the talk a bit, only to discover +that kpresenter refused to load its own data file. I cursed a bit and +started making the slides again from memory, to have something to +present when I arrived. I tested that the saved files could be +loaded, and the day seemed to be rescued. I continued to polish the +slides until I suddenly discovered that the saved file could no longer +be loaded into kpresenter. In the end I had to rewrite the slides +three times, condensing the content until the talk became shorter and +shorter. After the talk I was able to pinpoint the problem – +kpresenter wrote inline images in a way itself could not understand. +Eventually that bug was fixed and kpresenter ended up being a great +program to make slides. The point I'm trying to make is that we +expect a program to be able to load its own data files, and it is +embarrassing to its developers if it can't.

+ +

Did you ever experience a program failing to load its own data +files from the desktop file browser? It is not a uncommon problem. A +while back I discovered that the screencast recorder +gtk-recordmydesktop would save an Ogg Theora video file the KDE file +browser would refuse to open. No video player claimed to understand +such file. I tracked down the cause being file --mime-type +returning the application/ogg MIME type, which no video player I had +installed listed as a MIME type they would understand. I asked for +file to change its +behavour and use the MIME type video/ogg instead. I also asked +several video players to add video/ogg to their desktop files, to give +the file browser an idea what to do about Ogg Theora files. After a +while, the desktop file browsers in Debian started to handle the +output from gtk-recordmydesktop properly.

+ +

But history repeats itself. A few days ago I tested the music +system Rosegarden again, and I discovered that the KDE and xfce file +browsers did not know what to do with the Rosegarden project files +(*.rg). I've reported the +rosegarden problem to BTS and a fix is commited to git and will be +included in the next upload. To increase the chance of me remembering +how to fix the problem next time some program fail to load its files +from the file browser, here are some notes on how to fix it.

+ +

The file browsers in Debian in general operates on MIME types. +There are two sources for the MIME type of a given file. The output from +file --mime-type mentioned above, and the content of the +shared MIME type registry (under /usr/share/mime/). The file MIME +type is mapped to programs supporting the MIME type, and this +information is collected from +the +desktop files available in /usr/share/applications/. If there is +one desktop file claiming support for the MIME type of the file, it is +activated when asking to open a given file. If there are more, one +can normally select which one to use by right-clicking on the file and +selecting the wanted one using 'Open with' or similar. In general +this work well. But it depend on each program picking a good MIME +type (preferably +a +MIME type registered with IANA), file and/or the shared MIME +registry recognizing the file and the desktop file to list the MIME +type in its list of supported MIME types.

+ +

The /usr/share/mime/packages/rosegarden.xml entry for +the +Shared MIME database look like this:

+ +

+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info">
+  <mime-type type="audio/x-rosegarden">
+    <sub-class-of type="application/x-gzip"/>
+    <comment>Rosegarden project file</comment>
+    <glob pattern="*.rg"/>
+  </mime-type>
+</mime-info>
+

+ +

This states that audio/x-rosegarden is a kind of application/x-gzip +(it is a gzipped XML file). Note, it is much better to use an +official MIME type registered with IANA than it is to make up ones own +unofficial ones like the x-rosegarden type used by rosegarden.

+ +

The desktop file of the rosegarden program failed to list +audio/x-rosegarden in its list of supported MIME types, causing the +file browsers to have no idea what to do with *.rg files:

+ +

+% grep Mime /usr/share/applications/rosegarden.desktop
+MimeType=audio/x-rosegarden-composition;audio/x-rosegarden-device;audio/x-rosegarden-project;audio/x-rosegarden-template;audio/midi;
+X-KDE-NativeMimeType=audio/x-rosegarden-composition
+%
+

+ +

The fix was to add "audio/x-rosegarden;" at the end of the +MimeType= line.

+ +

If you run into a file which fail to open the correct program when +selected from the file browser, please check out the output from +file --mime-type for the file, ensure the file ending and +MIME type is registered somewhere under /usr/share/mime/ and check +that some desktop file under /usr/share/applications/ is claiming +support for this MIME type. If not, please report a bug to have it +fixed. :)

- Tags: english, standard. + Tags: debian, english.
@@ -934,57 +542,36 @@ sets.

-
Making battery measurements a little easier in Debian
-
15th March 2016
-

Back in September, I blogged about -the -system I wrote to collect statistics about my laptop battery, and -how it showed the decay and death of this battery (now replaced). I -created a simple deb package to handle the collection and graphing, -but did not want to upload it to Debian as there were already -a battery-stats -package in Debian that should do the same thing, and I did not see -a point of uploading a competing package when battery-stats could be -fixed instead. I reported a few bugs about its non-function, and -hoped someone would step in and fix it. But no-one did.

- -

I got tired of waiting a few days ago, and took matters in my own -hands. The end result is that I am now the new upstream developer of -battery stats (available from github) and part of the team maintaining -battery-stats in Debian, and the package in Debian unstable is finally -able to collect battery status using the /sys/class/power_supply/ -information provided by the Linux kernel. If you install the -battery-stats package from unstable now, you will be able to get a -graph of the current battery fill level, to get some idea about the -status of the battery. The source package build and work just fine in -Debian testing and stable (and probably oldstable too, but I have not -tested). The default graph you get for that system look like this:

- -

- -

My plans for the future is to merge my old scripts into the -battery-stats package, as my old scripts collected a lot more details -about the battery. The scripts are merged into the upstream -battery-stats git repository already, but I am not convinced they work -yet, as I changed a lot of paths along the way. Will have to test a -bit more before I make a new release.

- -

I will also consider changing the file format slightly, as I -suspect the way I combine several values into one field might make it -impossible to know the type of the value when using it for processing -and graphing.

- -

If you would like I would like to keep an close eye on your laptop -battery, check out the battery-stats package in -Debian and -on -github. -I would love some help to improve the system further.

+
Tor - from its creators mouth 11 years ago
+
28th May 2016
+

A little more than 11 years ago, one of the creators of Tor, and +the current President of the Tor +project, Roger Dingledine, gave a talk for the members of the +Norwegian Unix User group (NUUG). A +video of the talk was recorded, and today, thanks to the great help +from David Noble, I finally was able to publish the video of the talk +on Frikanalen, the Norwegian open channel TV station where NUUG +currently publishes its talks. You can +watch the live stream using a web +browser with WebM support, or check out the recording on the video +on demand page for the talk +"Tor: Anonymous +communication for the US Department of Defence...and you.".

+ +

Here is the video included for those of you using browsers with +HTML video and Ogg Theora support:

+ +

+ +

I guess the gist of the talk can be summarised quite simply: If you +want to help the military in USA (and everyone else), use Tor. :)

- Tags: debian, english. + Tags: english, frikanalen, nuug, video.
@@ -992,105 +579,67 @@ I would love some help to improve the system further.

-
Creating, updating and checking debian/copyright semi-automatically
-
19th February 2016
-

Making packages for Debian requires quite a lot of attention to -details. And one of the details is the content of the -debian/copyright file, which should list all relevant licenses used by -the code in the package in question, preferably in -machine -readable DEP5 format.

- -

For large packages with lots of contributors it is hard to write -and update this file manually, and if you get some detail wrong, the -package is normally rejected by the ftpmasters. So getting it right -the first time around get the package into Debian faster, and save -both you and the ftpmasters some work.. Today, while trying to figure -out what was wrong with -the -zfsonlinux copyright file, I decided to spend some time on -figuring out the options for doing this job automatically, or at least -semi-automatically.

- -

Lucikly, there are at least two tools available for generating the -file based on the code in the source package, -debmake -and cme. I'm -not sure which one of them came first, but both seem to be able to -create a sensible draft file. As far as I can tell, none of them can -be trusted to get the result just right, so the content need to be -polished a bit before the file is OK to upload. I found the debmake -option in -a -blog posts from 2014. - -

To generate using debmake, use the -cc option: - -

-debmake -cc > debian/copyright
-

- -

Note there are some problems with python and non-ASCII names, so -this might not be the best option.

- -

The cme option is based on a config parsing library, and I found -this approach in -a -blog post from 2015. To generate using cme, use the 'update -dpkg-copyright' option: - -

-cme update dpkg-copyright
-

- -

This will create or update debian/copyright. The cme tool seem to -handle UTF-8 names better than debmake.

- -

When the copyright file is created, I would also like some help to -check if the file is correct. For this I found two good options, -debmake -k and license-reconcile. The former seem -to focus on license types and file matching, and is able to detect -ineffective blocks in the copyright file. The latter reports missing -copyright holders and years, but was confused by inconsistent license -names (like CDDL vs. CDDL-1.0). I suspect it is good to use both and -fix all issues reported by them before uploading. But I do not know -if the tools and the ftpmasters agree on what is important to fix in a -copyright file, so the package might still be rejected.

- -

The devscripts tool licensecheck deserve mentioning. It -will read through the source and try to find all copyright statements. -It is not comparing the result to the content of debian/copyright, but -can be useful when verifying the content of the copyright file.

- -

Are you aware of better tools in Debian to create and update -debian/copyright file. Please let me know, or blog about it on -planet.debian.org.

- -

As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my -activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address -15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b.

- -

Update 2016-02-20: I got a tip from Mike Gabriel -on how to use licensecheck and cdbs to create a draft copyright file - -

-licensecheck --copyright -r `find * -type f` | \
-  /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 > debian/copyright.auto
-

- -

He mentioned that he normally check the generated file into the -version control system to make it easier to discover license and -copyright changes in the upstream source. I will try to do the same -with my packages in the future.

- -

Update 2016-02-21: The cme author recommended -against using -quiet for new users, so I removed it from the proposed -command line.

+
Isenkram with PackageKit support - new version 0.23 available in Debian unstable
+
25th May 2016
+

The isenkram +system is a user-focused solution in Debian for handling hardware +related packages. The idea is to have a database of mappings between +hardware and packages, and pop up a dialog suggesting for the user to +install the packages to use a given hardware dongle. Some use cases +are when you insert a Yubikey, it proposes to install the software +needed to control it; when you insert a braille reader list it +proposes to install the packages needed to send text to the reader; +and when you insert a ColorHug screen calibrator it suggests to +install the driver for it. The system work well, and even have a few +command line tools to install firmware packages and packages for the +hardware already in the machine (as opposed to hotpluggable hardware).

+ +

The system was initially written using aptdaemon, because I found +good documentation and example code on how to use it. But aptdaemon +is going away and is generally being replaced by +PackageKit, +so Isenkram needed a rewrite. And today, thanks to the great patch +from my college Sunil Mohan Adapa in the FreedomBox project, the +rewrite finally took place. I've just uploaded a new version of +Isenkram into Debian Unstable with the patch included, and the default +for the background daemon is now to use PackageKit. To check it out, +install the isenkram package and insert some hardware dongle +and see if it is recognised.

+ +

If you want to know what kind of packages isenkram would propose for +the machine it is running on, you can check out the isenkram-lookup +program. This is what it look like on a Thinkpad X230:

+ +

+% isenkram-lookup 
+bluez
+cheese
+fprintd
+fprintd-demo
+gkrellm-thinkbat
+hdapsd
+libpam-fprintd
+pidgin-blinklight
+thinkfan
+tleds
+tp-smapi-dkms
+tp-smapi-source
+tpb
+%p
+

+ +

The hardware mappings come from several places. The preferred way +is for packages to announce their hardware support using +the +cross distribution appstream system. +See +previous +blog posts about isenkram to learn how to do that.

- Tags: debian, english. + Tags: debian, english, isenkram.
@@ -1098,76 +647,57 @@ command line.

-
Using appstream in Debian to locate packages with firmware and mime type support
-
4th February 2016
-

The appstream system -is taking shape in Debian, and one provided feature is a very -convenient way to tell you which package to install to make a given -firmware file available when the kernel is looking for it. This can -be done using apt-file too, but that is for someone else to blog -about. :)

- -

Here is a small recipe to find the package with a given firmware -file, in this example I am looking for ctfw-3.2.3.0.bin, randomly -picked from the set of firmware announced using appstream in Debian -unstable. In general you would be looking for the firmware requested -by the kernel during kernel module loading. To find the package -providing the example file, do like this:

- -
-% apt install appstream
-[...]
-% apt update
-[...]
-% appstreamcli what-provides firmware:runtime ctfw-3.2.3.0.bin | \
-  awk '/Package:/ {print $2}'
-firmware-qlogic
-%
-
- -

See the -appstream wiki page to learn how to embed the package metadata in -a way appstream can use.

- -

This same approach can be used to find any package supporting a -given MIME type. This is very useful when you get a file you do not -know how to handle. First find the mime type using file ---mime-type, and next look up the package providing support for -it. Lets say you got an SVG file. Its MIME type is image/svg+xml, -and you can find all packages handling this type like this:

- -
-% apt install appstream
-[...]
-% apt update
-[...]
-% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype image/svg+xml | \
-  awk '/Package:/ {print $2}'
-bkchem
-phototonic
-inkscape
-shutter
-tetzle
-geeqie
-xia
-pinta
-gthumb
-karbon
-comix
-mirage
-viewnior
-postr
-ristretto
-kolourpaint4
-eog
-eom
-gimagereader
-midori
-%
-
+
Discharge rate estimate in new battery statistics collector for Debian
+
23rd May 2016
+

Yesterday I updated the +battery-stats +package in Debian with a few patches sent to me by skilled and +enterprising users. There were some nice user and visible changes. +First of all, both desktop menu entries now work. A design flaw in +one of the script made the history graph fail to show up (its PNG was +dumped in ~/.xsession-errors) if no controlling TTY was available. +The script worked when called from the command line, but not when +called from the desktop menu. I changed this to look for a DISPLAY +variable or a TTY before deciding where to draw the graph, and now the +graph window pop up as expected.

+ +

The next new feature is a discharge rate estimator in one of the +graphs (the one showing the last few hours). New is also the user of +colours showing charging in blue and discharge in red. The percentages +of this graph is relative to last full charge, not battery design +capacity.

+ +

+ +

The other graph show the entire history of the collected battery +statistics, comparing it to the design capacity of the battery to +visualise how the battery life time get shorter over time. The red +line in this graph is what the previous graph considers 100 percent: + +

+ +

In this graph you can see that I only charge the battery to 80 +percent of last full capacity, and how the capacity of the battery is +shrinking. :(

+ +

The last new feature is in the collector, which now will handle +more hardware models. On some hardware, Linux power supply +information is stored in /sys/class/power_supply/ACAD/, while the +collector previously only looked in /sys/class/power_supply/AC/. Now +both are checked to figure if there is power connected to the +machine.

-

I believe the MIME types are fetched from the desktop file for -packages providing appstream metadata.

+

If you are interested in how your laptop battery is doing, please +check out the +battery-stats +in Debian unstable, or rebuild it on Jessie to get it working on +Debian stable. :) The upstream source is available from github. +Patches are very welcome.

+ +

As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my +activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address +15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b.

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