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+		<title>SOAP based webservice from Dell to check server support status</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html</link>        
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;A few years ago I wrote
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html&quot;&gt;how
+to extract support status&lt;/a&gt; for your Dell and HP servers.  Recently
+I have learned from colleges here at the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uio.no/&quot;&gt;University of Oslo&lt;/a&gt; that Dell have
+made this even easier, by providing a SOAP based web service.  Given
+the service tag, one can now query the Dell servers and get machine
+readable information about the support status.  This perl code
+demonstrate how to do it:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use SOAP::Lite;
+use Data::Dumper;
+my $GUID = &#39;11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111&#39;;
+my $App = &#39;test&#39;;
+my $servicetag = $ARGV[0] or die &quot;Please supply a servicetag. $!\n&quot;;
+my ($deal, $latest, @dates);
+my $s = SOAP::Lite
+    -&gt; uri(&#39;http://support.dell.com/WebServices/&#39;)
+    -&gt; on_action( sub { join &#39;&#39;, @_ } )
+    -&gt; proxy(&#39;http://xserv.dell.com/services/assetservice.asmx&#39;)
+    ;
+my $a = $s-&gt;GetAssetInformation(
+    SOAP::Data-&gt;name(&#39;guid&#39;)-&gt;value($GUID)-&gt;type(&#39;&#39;),
+    SOAP::Data-&gt;name(&#39;applicationName&#39;)-&gt;value($App)-&gt;type(&#39;&#39;),
+    SOAP::Data-&gt;name(&#39;serviceTags&#39;)-&gt;value($servicetag)-&gt;type(&#39;&#39;),
+);
+print Dumper($a -&gt; result) ;
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The output can look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+$VAR1 = {
+          &#39;Asset&#39; =&gt; {
+                     &#39;Entitlements&#39; =&gt; {
+                                       &#39;EntitlementData&#39; =&gt; [
+                                                            {
+                                                              &#39;EntitlementType&#39; =&gt; &#39;Expired&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;EndDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2009-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;Provider&#39; =&gt; &#39;&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;StartDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2006-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;DaysLeft&#39; =&gt; &#39;0&#39;
+                                                            },
+                                                            {
+                                                              &#39;EntitlementType&#39; =&gt; &#39;Expired&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;EndDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2009-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;Provider&#39; =&gt; &#39;&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;StartDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2006-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;DaysLeft&#39; =&gt; &#39;0&#39;
+                                                            },
+                                                            {
+                                                              &#39;EntitlementType&#39; =&gt; &#39;Expired&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;EndDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2007-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;Provider&#39; =&gt; &#39;&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;StartDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2006-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;DaysLeft&#39; =&gt; &#39;0&#39;
+                                                            }
+                                                          ]
+                                     },
+                     &#39;AssetHeaderData&#39; =&gt; {
+                                          &#39;SystemModel&#39; =&gt; &#39;GX620&#39;,
+                                          &#39;ServiceTag&#39; =&gt; &#39;8DSGD2J&#39;,
+                                          &#39;SystemShipDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2006-07-29T19:00:00-05:00&#39;,
+                                          &#39;Buid&#39; =&gt; &#39;2323&#39;,
+                                          &#39;Region&#39; =&gt; &#39;Europe&#39;,
+                                          &#39;SystemID&#39; =&gt; &#39;PLX_GX620&#39;,
+                                          &#39;SystemType&#39; =&gt; &#39;OptiPlex&#39;
+                                        }
+                   }
+        };
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I have not been able to find any documentation from Dell about this
+service outside the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://xserv.dell.com/services/assetservice.asmx?op=GetAssetInformation&quot;&gt;inline
+documentation&lt;/a&gt;, and according to
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://iboyd.net/index.php/2012/02/14/updated-dell-warranty-information-script/&quot;&gt;one
+comment&lt;/a&gt; it can have stability issues, but it is a lot better than
+scraping HTML pages. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Wonder if HP and other server vendors have a similar service.  If
+you know of one, drop me an email. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>Debian Edu interview: Mike Gabriel</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html</link>        
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jun 2012 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Back in 2010, Mike Gabriel showed up on the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
+mailing list.  He quickly proved to be a valuable developer, and
+thanks to his tireless effort we now have Kerberos integrated into the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
+Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; version.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My name is Mike Gabriel, I am 38 years old and live near Kiel,
+Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. I live together with a wonderful partner
+(Angela Fuß) and two own children and two bonus children (contributed
+by Angela).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;During the day I am part-time employed as a system administrator
+and part-time working as an IT consultant. The consultancy work
+touches free software topics wherever and whenever possible. During
+the nights I am a free software developer. In the gaps I also train in
+becoming an osteopath.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Starting in 2010 we (Andreas Buchholz, Angela Fuß, Mike Gabriel)
+have set up a free software project in the area of Kiel that aims at
+introducing free software into schools. The project&#39;s name is
+&quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot; (IT future for schools). The project links IT
+skills with communication skills.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;While preparing our own customised Linux distribution for
+&quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot; we were repeatedly asked if we really wanted to
+reinvent the wheel. What schools really need is already available,
+people said.  From this impulse we started evaluating other Linux
+distributions that target being used for school networks.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;At the end we short-listed two approaches and compared them: a
+commercial Linux distribution developed by a company in Bremen,
+Germany, and Skolelinux / Debian Edu. Between 12/2010 and 03/2011 we
+went to several events and met people being responsible for marketing
+and development of either of the distributions. Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu was by far much more convincing compared to the other product that
+got short-listed beforehand--across the full spectrum. What was most
+attractive for me personally: the perspective of collaboration within
+the developmental branch of the Debian Edu project itself.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;In parallel with this, we talked to many local and not-so-local
+people.  People teaching at schools, headmasters, politicians, data
+protection experts, other IT professionals.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;We came to two conclusions:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;First, a technical conclusion: What schools need is available in
+bits and pieces here and there, and none of the solutions really fit
+by 100%. Any school we have seen has a very individual IT setup
+whereas most of each school&#39;s requirements could mapped by a standard
+IT solution.  The requirement to this IT solution is flexibility and
+customisability, so that individual adaptations here and there are
+possible.  In terms of re-distributing and rolling out such a
+standardised IT system for schools (a system that is still to some
+degree customisable) there is still a lot of work to do here
+locally. Debian Edu / Skolelinux has been our choice as the starting
+point.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Second, a holistic conclusion: What schools need does not exist at
+all (or we missed it so far). There are several technical solutions
+for handling IT at schools that tend to make a good impression. What
+has been missing completely here in Germany, though, is the enrolment
+of people into using IT and teaching with IT. &quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot;
+tries to provide an approach for this.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Only some schools have some sort of a media concept which explains,
+defines and gives guidance on how to use IT in class. Most schools in
+Northern Germany do not have an IT service provider, the school&#39;s IT
+equipment is managed by one or (if the school is lucky) two (admin)
+teachers, most of the workload these admin teachers get done in there
+spare time.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;We were surprised that only a very few admin teachers were
+networked with colleagues from other schools. Basically, every school
+here around has its individual approach of providing IT equipment to
+teachers and students and the exchange of ideas has been quasi
+non-existent until 2010/2011.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Quite some (non-admin) teachers try to avoid using IT technology in
+class as a learning medium completely. Several reasons for this
+avoidance do exist.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;We discovered that no-one has ever taken a closer look at this
+social part of IT management in schools, so far. On our quest journey
+for a technical IT solution for schools, we discussed this issue with
+several teachers, headmasters, politicians, other IT professionals and
+they all confirmed: a holistic approach of considering IT management
+at schools, an approach that includes the people in place, will be new
+and probably a gain for all.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;There is a list of advantages: international context, openness to
+any kind of contributions, do-ocracy policy, the closeness to Debian,
+the different installation scenarios possible (from stand-alone
+workstation to complex multi-server sites), the transparency within
+project communication, honest communication within the group of
+developers, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Every coin has two sides:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Technically: &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/311188&quot;&gt;BTS issue
+#311188&lt;/a&gt;, tricky upgradability of a Debian Edu main server, network
+client installations on top of a plain vanilla Debian installation
+should become possible sometime in the near future, one could think
+about splitting the very complex package debian-edu-config into
+several portions (to make it easier for new developers to
+contribute).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Another issue I see is that we (as Debian Edu developers) should
+find out more about the network of people who do the marketing for
+Debian Edu / Skolelinux. There is a very active group in Germany
+promoting Skolelinux on the bigger Linux Days within Germany. Are
+there other groups like that in other countries? How can we bring
+these marketing people together (marketing group A with group B and
+all of them with the group of Debian Edu developers)? During the last
+meeting of the German Skolelinux group, I got the impression of people
+there being rather disconnected from the development department of
+Debian Edu / Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For my daily business, I do not use commercial software at all.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For normal stuff I use Iceweasel/Firefox, Libreoffice.org. For
+serious text writing I prefer LaTeX. I use gimp, inkscape, scribus for
+more artistic tasks. I run virtual machines in KVM and Virtualbox.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I am one of the upstream developers of X2Go. In 2010 I started the
+development of a Python based X2Go Client, called PyHoca-GUI.
+PyHoca-GUI has brought forth a Python X2Go Client API that currently
+is being integrated in Ubuntu&#39;s software center.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For communications I have my own Kolab server running using Horde
+as web-based groupware client. For IRC I love to use irssi, for Jabber
+I have several clients that I use, mostly pidgin, though. I am also
+the Debian maintainer of Coccinella, a Jabber-based interactive
+whiteboard.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My favourite terminal emulator is KDE&#39;s Yakuake.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Communicate, communicate, communicate. Enrol people, enrol people,
+enrol people.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>Kommentar til artikkel i Adresseavisa som omtaler FiksGataMi</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kommentar_til_artikkel_i_Adresseavisa_som_omtaler_FiksGataMi.html</link>        
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kommentar_til_artikkel_i_Adresseavisa_som_omtaler_FiksGataMi.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jun 2012 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg oppdaget nylig en
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/trondheim/article1831198.ece&quot;&gt;artikkel
+i Adresseavisa&lt;/a&gt; i Trondheim som nevner FiksGataMi, og der Trondheim
+kommune ser ut til å fortelle at de ikke følger forvaltningslovens
+krav ved mottak av meldinger sendt inn via FiksGataMi.  La derfor
+nettopp inn denne kommentaren til artikkelen:&lt;p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Her er en liten faktaoppdatering om FiksGataMi-tjenesten, da noen
+ser ut til å ha misforstått hvordan den fungerer.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;FiksGataMi er et privat initiativ opprettet og drevet av
+medlemsforeningen NUUG.  FiksGataMi tar imot meldinger om feil i
+offentlig infrastruktur, og sender meldingen skriftlig videre på vegne
+av innmelder til aktuell aktør i det offentlige, det være seg kommune,
+fylke eller vegvesenregion.  Offentlig etat blir valgt ut fra
+geografisk plassering og kategori valgt av innsender.  Offentlige
+etater er i følge forvaltningsloven pliktig å følge opp og besvare
+skriftlige henvendelser, og hvis noen av mottakerne ikke gjør dette
+kan en klage på lovbrudd i det offentlige.  FiksGataMi fungerer dermed
+som en slags epostklient for innbyggerne der kopi av innsendte
+meldinger gjøres tilgjengelig og knyttes til kartplassering for enkel
+gjenfinning.  Å sende inn nye problemrapporter via FiksGataMi er
+dermed ikke avhengig av at kommunen aktivt må følge med på meldinger
+hos FiksGataMi, da de får dem tilsendt på sine offisielle
+epostmottakspunkter.  Hvorvidt noe blir fikset og om innbyggerne er
+opp til mottaker av meldingene.  For Trondheim kommune er
+mottaksadressen bydrift.vegdrift@trondheim.kommune.no, en adresse jeg
+inntil jeg leste denne artikkelen trodde ble håndtert i henhold til
+forvaltningslovens krav.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Kan ellers fortelle at 57 kommuner lenker til FiksGataMi fra sine
+nettsider, og at 37 % (4182 av 11266 ) av problemrapportene sendt inn
+via FiksGataMi er markert som løst i løsningen.  Trondheim kommune har
+fått tilbud om å få rapportene levert på datamaskinlesbart format i
+stedet for epost, men har ikke takket ja så langt.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Vennlig hilsen Petter Reinholdtsen, en av NUUG-folkene bak FiksGataMi.no&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Det høres for meg ut som om innbyggerne i Trondheim burde klage på
+kommunens potensielle lovbrudd.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>Web service to look up HP and Dell computer hardware support status</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_service_to_look_up_HP_and_Dell_computer_hardware_support_status.html</link>        
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_service_to_look_up_HP_and_Dell_computer_hardware_support_status.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 6 Jun 2012 23:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html&quot;&gt;I
+reported how to get&lt;/a&gt; the support status out of Dell using an
+unofficial and undocumented SOAP API, which I since have found out was
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2012-February/045959.html&quot;&gt;discovered
+by Daniel De Marco in february&lt;/a&gt;.  Combined with my web scraping
+code for HP, Dell and IBM
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html&quot;&gt;from
+2009&lt;/a&gt;, I got inspired and wrote
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/&quot;&gt;a
+web service&lt;/a&gt; based on Scraperwiki to make it easy to look up the
+support status and get a machine readable result back.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is what it look like at the moment when asking for the JSON
+output:
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+% GET &lt;a href=&quot;https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&amp;vendor=Dell&amp;servicetag=2v1xwn1&quot;&gt;https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&amp;vendor=Dell&amp;servicetag=2v1xwn1&lt;/a&gt;
+supportstatus({&quot;servicetag&quot;: &quot;2v1xwn1&quot;, &quot;warrantyend&quot;: &quot;2013-11-24&quot;, &quot;shipped&quot;: &quot;2010-11-24&quot;, &quot;scrapestamputc&quot;: &quot;2012-06-06T20:26:56.965847&quot;, &quot;scrapedurl&quot;: &quot;http://143.166.84.118/services/assetservice.asmx?WSDL&quot;, &quot;vendor&quot;: &quot;Dell&quot;, &quot;productid&quot;: &quot;&quot;})
+%
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;It currently support Dell and HP, and I am hoping for help to add
+support for other vendors.  The python source is available on
+Scraperwiki and I welcome help with adding more features.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>TV with face recognition, for improved viewer experience</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/TV_with_face_recognition__for_improved_viewer_experience.html</link>        
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/TV_with_face_recognition__for_improved_viewer_experience.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 9 Jun 2012 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Slashdot got a story about Intel planning a
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/06/09/0012247/intel-to-launch-tv-service-with-facial-recognition-by-end-of-the-year&quot;&gt;TV
+with face recognition&lt;/a&gt; to recognise the viewer, and it occurred to
+me that it would be more interesting to turn it around, and do face
+recognition on the TV image itself.  It could let the viewer know who
+is present on the screen, and perhaps look up their credibility,
+company affiliation, previous appearances etc for the viewer to better
+evaluate what is being said and done.  That would be a feature I would
+be willing to pay for.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I would not be willing to pay for a TV that point a camera on my
+household, like the big brother feature apparently proposed by Intel.
+It is the telescreen idea fetched straight out of the book
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt&quot;&gt;1984 by George
+Orwell&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
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