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Good bye subkeys.pgp.net, welcome pool.sks-keyservers.net
-
10th September 2014
-

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending a talk with the -Norwegian Unix User Group about -the -OpenPGP keyserver pool sks-keyservers.net, and was very happy to -learn that there is a large set of publicly available key servers to -use when looking for peoples public key. So far I have used -subkeys.pgp.net, and some times wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net when the former -were misbehaving, but those days are ended. The servers I have used -up until yesterday have been slow and some times unavailable. I hope -those problems are gone now.

- -

Behind the round robin DNS entry of the -sks-keyservers.net service -there is a pool of more than 100 keyservers which are checked every -day to ensure they are well connected and up to date. It must be -better than what I have used so far. :)

- -

Yesterdays speaker told me that the service is the default -keyserver provided by the default configuration in GnuPG, but this do -not seem to be used in Debian. Perhaps it should?

- -

Anyway, I've updated my ~/.gnupg/options file to now include this -line:

- -

-keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net
-

- -

With GnuPG version 2 one can also locate the keyserver using SRV -entries in DNS. Just for fun, I did just that at work, so now every -user of GnuPG at the University of Oslo should find a OpenGPG -keyserver automatically should their need it:

- -

-% host -t srv _pgpkey-http._tcp.uio.no
-_pgpkey-http._tcp.uio.no has SRV record 0 100 11371 pool.sks-keyservers.net.
-%
-

- -

Now if only -the -HKP lookup protocol supported finding signature paths, I would be -very happy. It can look up a given key or search for a user ID, but I -normally do not want that, but to find a trust path from my key to -another key. Given a user ID or key ID, I would like to find (and -download) the keys representing a signature path from my key to the -key in question, to be able to get a trust path between the two keys. -This is as far as I can tell not possible today. Perhaps something -for a future version of the protocol?

+ +
9th August 2017
+

On friday, I came across an interesting article in the Norwegian +web based ICT news magazine digi.no on +how +to collect the IMSI numbers of nearby cell phones using the cheap +DVB-T software defined radios. The article refered to instructions +and a recipe by +Keld Norman on Youtube on how to make a simple $7 IMSI Catcher, and I decided to test them out.

+ +

The instructions said to use Ubuntu, install pip using apt (to +bypass apt), use pip to install pybombs (to bypass both apt and pip), +and the ask pybombs to fetch and build everything you need from +scratch. I wanted to see if I could do the same on the most recent +Debian packages, but this did not work because pybombs tried to build +stuff that no longer build with the most recent openssl library or +some other version skew problem. While trying to get this recipe +working, I learned that the apt->pip->pybombs route was a long detour, +and the only piece of software dependency missing in Debian was the +gr-gsm package. I also found out that the lead upstream developer of +gr-gsm (the name stand for GNU Radio GSM) project already had a set of +Debian packages provided in an Ubuntu PPA repository. All I needed to +do was to dget the Debian source package and built it.

+ +

The IMSI collector is a python script listening for packages on the +loopback network device and printing to the terminal some specific GSM +packages with IMSI numbers in them. The code is fairly short and easy +to understand. The reason this work is because gr-gsm include a tool +to read GSM data from a software defined radio like a DVB-T USB stick +and other software defined radios, decode them and inject them into a +network device on your Linux machine (using the loopback device by +default). This proved to work just fine, and I've been testing the +collector for a few days now.

+ +

The updated and simpler recipe is thus to

+ +
    + +
  1. start with a Debian machine running Stretch or newer,
  2. + +
  3. build and install the gr-gsm package available from +http://ppa.launchpad.net/ptrkrysik/gr-gsm/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gr-gsm/,
  4. + +
  5. clone the git repostory from https://github.com/Oros42/IMSI-catcher,
  6. + +
  7. run grgsm_livemon and adjust the frequency until the terminal +where it was started is filled with a stream of text (meaning you +found a GSM station).
  8. + +
  9. go into the IMSI-catcher directory and run 'sudo python simple_IMSI-catcher.py' to extract the IMSI numbers.
  10. + +
+ +

To make it even easier in the future to get this sniffer up and +running, I decided to package +the gr-gsm project +for Debian (WNPP +#871055), and the package was uploaded into the NEW queue today. +Luckily the gnuradio maintainer has promised to help me, as I do not +know much about gnuradio stuff yet.

+ +

I doubt this "IMSI cacher" is anywhere near as powerfull as +commercial tools like +The +Spy Phone Portable IMSI / IMEI Catcher or the +Harris +Stingray, but I hope the existance of cheap alternatives can make +more people realise how their whereabouts when carrying a cell phone +is easily tracked. Seeing the data flow on the screen, realizing that +I live close to a police station and knowing that the police is also +wearing cell phones, I wonder how hard it would be for criminals to +track the position of the police officers to discover when there are +police near by, or for foreign military forces to track the location +of the Norwegian military forces, or for anyone to track the location +of government officials...

+ +

It is worth noting that the data reported by the IMSI-catcher +script mentioned above is only a fraction of the data broadcasted on +the GSM network. It will only collect one frequency at the time, +while a typical phone will be using several frequencies, and not all +phones will be using the frequencies tracked by the grgsm_livemod +program. Also, there is a lot of radio chatter being ignored by the +simple_IMSI-catcher script, which would be collected by extending the +parser code. I wonder if gr-gsm can be set up to listen to more than +one frequency?

@@ -83,116 +117,37 @@ for a future version of the protocol?

- -
25th August 2014
-

Two years later, I am still not sure if it is legal here in Norway -to use or publish a video in H.264 or MPEG4 format edited by the -commercially licensed video editors, without limiting the use to -create "personal" or "non-commercial" videos or get a license -agreement with MPEG LA. If one -want to publish and broadcast video in a non-personal or commercial -setting, it might be that those tools can not be used, or that video -format can not be used, without breaking their copyright license. I -am not sure. -Back -then, I found that the copyright license terms for Adobe Premiere -and Apple Final Cut Pro both specified that one could not use the -program to produce anything else without a patent license from MPEG -LA. The issue is not limited to those two products, though. Other -much used products like those from Avid and Sorenson Media have terms -of use are similar to those from Adobe and Apple. The complicating -factor making me unsure if those terms have effect in Norway or not is -that the patents in question are not valid in Norway, but copyright -licenses are.

- -

These are the terms for Avid Artist Suite, according to their -published -end user -license -text (converted to lower case text for easier reading):

- -

-

18.2. MPEG-4. MPEG-4 technology may be included with the -software. MPEG LA, L.L.C. requires this notice:

- -

This product is licensed under the MPEG-4 visual patent portfolio -license for the personal and non-commercial use of a consumer for (i) -encoding video in compliance with the MPEG-4 visual standard (“MPEG-4 -video”) and/or (ii) decoding MPEG-4 video that was encoded by a -consumer engaged in a personal and non-commercial activity and/or was -obtained from a video provider licensed by MPEG LA to provide MPEG-4 -video. No license is granted or shall be implied for any other -use. Additional information including that relating to promotional, -internal and commercial uses and licensing may be obtained from MPEG -LA, LLC. See http://www.mpegla.com. This product is licensed under -the MPEG-4 systems patent portfolio license for encoding in compliance -with the MPEG-4 systems standard, except that an additional license -and payment of royalties are necessary for encoding in connection with -(i) data stored or replicated in physical media which is paid for on a -title by title basis and/or (ii) data which is paid for on a title by -title basis and is transmitted to an end user for permanent storage -and/or use, such additional license may be obtained from MPEG LA, -LLC. See http://www.mpegla.com for additional details.

- -

18.3. H.264/AVC. H.264/AVC technology may be included with the -software. MPEG LA, L.L.C. requires this notice:

- -

This product is licensed under the AVC patent portfolio license for -the personal use of a consumer or other uses in which it does not -receive remuneration to (i) encode video in compliance with the AVC -standard (“AVC video”) and/or (ii) decode AVC video that was encoded -by a consumer engaged in a personal activity and/or was obtained from -a video provider licensed to provide AVC video. No license is granted -or shall be implied for any other use. Additional information may be -obtained from MPEG LA, L.L.C. See http://www.mpegla.com.

-

- -

Note the requirement that the videos created can only be used for -personal or non-commercial purposes.

- -

The Sorenson Media software have -similar terms:

- -

- -

With respect to a license from Sorenson pertaining to MPEG-4 Video -Decoders and/or Encoders: Any such product is licensed under the -MPEG-4 visual patent portfolio license for the personal and -non-commercial use of a consumer for (i) encoding video in compliance -with the MPEG-4 visual standard (“MPEG-4 video”) and/or (ii) decoding -MPEG-4 video that was encoded by a consumer engaged in a personal and -non-commercial activity and/or was obtained from a video provider -licensed by MPEG LA to provide MPEG-4 video. No license is granted or -shall be implied for any other use. Additional information including -that relating to promotional, internal and commercial uses and -licensing may be obtained from MPEG LA, LLC. See -http://www.mpegla.com.

- -

With respect to a license from Sorenson pertaining to MPEG-4 -Consumer Recorded Data Encoder, MPEG-4 Systems Internet Data Encoder, -MPEG-4 Mobile Data Encoder, and/or MPEG-4 Unique Use Encoder: Any such -product is licensed under the MPEG-4 systems patent portfolio license -for encoding in compliance with the MPEG-4 systems standard, except -that an additional license and payment of royalties are necessary for -encoding in connection with (i) data stored or replicated in physical -media which is paid for on a title by title basis and/or (ii) data -which is paid for on a title by title basis and is transmitted to an -end user for permanent storage and/or use. Such additional license may -be obtained from MPEG LA, LLC. See http://www.mpegla.com for -additional details.

- -

- -

Some free software like -Handbrake and -FFMPEG uses GPL/LGPL licenses and do -not have any such terms included, so for those, there is no -requirement to limit the use to personal and non-commercial.

+ +
25th July 2017
+

+ +

I finally received a copy of the Norwegian Bokmål edition of +"The Debian Administrator's +Handbook". This test copy arrived in the mail a few days ago, and +I am very happy to hold the result in my hand. We spent around one and a half year translating it. This paperbook edition +is available +from lulu.com. If you buy it quickly, you save 25% on the list +price. The book is also available for download in electronic form as +PDF, EPUB and Mobipocket, as can be +read online +as a web page.

+ +

This is the second book I publish (the first was the book +"Free Culture" by Lawrence Lessig +in +English, +French +and +Norwegian +Bokmål), and I am very excited to finally wrap up this +project. I hope +"Håndbok +for Debian-administratoren" will be well received.

@@ -200,167 +155,50 @@ requirement to limit the use to personal and non-commercial.

- -
3rd August 2014
-

Lenge siden jeg har hatt tid til å publisere lenker til skriverier -jeg har hatt glede og nytte av av å lese. Her er en liten norsk -lenkesamling.

- -

    - -
  • Sjøslag -om fiskemilliardene (NRK Ytring 2014-03-03) - litt om hvordan de -norske felles matressurser røves fra felleskapet.
  • - -
  • Matkrisen -kan komme til Norge (Aftenposten 2014-4-01) - hvordan miljøendringene vil gjøre matproduksjonen i Norge mer sÃ¥rbar.
  • - -
  • Norge -trenger kornlager (NRK Ytring 2014-06-07) Chr. Anton Smedshaug -forteller litt om Norges sÃ¥rbare matsituasjon etter at Staten solgte -Norges kornlager.
  • - -
  • PST -vil overvÃ¥ke datatastaturer (NRK 2014-03-04) - PST ønsker retten -til Ã¥ bryte seg inn pÃ¥ private PC-er og legge inn spionprogrammer. -Hvilket nok vil gjøre Linux mer populært, men gjør at en i enda mindre -grad enn i dag kan stole pÃ¥ datamaskiner - neppe en god ide for -samfunnet totalt sett.
  • - -
  • «Ruter -fremstÃ¥r som et pøbelvelde» (OsloBy 2014-03-05) - et eksempel pÃ¥ -hvordan kollektivtransportselskapet i Oslo hÃ¥ndterer sine kunder.
  • - -
  • Clear -Channel nektet Ã¥ vise Greenpeace-reklame i Oslo (Dagbladet -2014-03-05) - forteller litt om hvordan hvilke budskap som nÃ¥r ut i -det offentlige rom kontrolleres i Norge.
  • - -
  • Svarte -ikke pÃ¥ kritikken (Dagbladet 2014-03-06) - innlegg fra Norsk -presseforbund der de nok en gang tar opp det forkastelige i at -politiet nÃ¥ har full tilgang til Ã¥ bedrive telefonkontroll av -advokater.
  • - -
  • «Putin -spiller poker, ikke sjakk. I sjakk har man regler.» (Aftenposten -2014-03-08) - sjakklegenden Kasparov forklarer litt om hvordan han ser -at Russlands politikk fungerer, blant annet i lys av started av -Ukraina-krisen.
  • - -
  • I -seng med fienden (Aftenposten 2014-03-10) - kronikk fra Eirik -H. Vinje om hvordan menn og kvinner settes opp mot hverandre i det -offentlige ordskiftet, kanskje pÃ¥ sviktende grunnlag.
  • - -
  • Fritt -frem for skulk (Aftenposten 2014-03-14) - skildring av hvordan -norske elever i dag ikke lenger har rimelig krav om oppmøte pÃ¥ -skolen.
  • - -
  • «Datalagringsdirektiv» -avslørte abort, sykdom og vÃ¥penkjøp (Aftenposten 2014-03-14) - om -hvordan forskere har dokumentert hvordan innsamling av metadata om -telefoni og Internett-bruk kan være svært avslørende.
  • - -
  • Konsentrasjonssvikt -pÃ¥ pensum (Dagbladet 2014-03-14) - Kommentar om hvordan (feil) -bruk IKT i skolen kan ødelegge mer enn det bidrar til læring.
  • - -
  • Reservasjonsrettsstaten -(blogg fra Doremus 2014-02-09) - morsom beskrivelse om hvordan -regjeringens forslag til reservasjonsrett for leger kan utvides til Ã¥ -gjelde alles samvittighet.
  • - -
  • Autoritær -gjøkunge (Aftenposten 2014-03-25) - Kronikk av Bjørn Stærk om -snurpenots-overvÃ¥kningen som varsleren Snowden dokumenterte.
  • - -
  • Leveransekrise -i Offentlig sektor – mener Mike Bracken, Executive Director of Digital -in the Cabinet Office (blogg fra Friprog-senteret 2014-03-26).
  • - -
  • Norge -mÃ¥ stanse avlyttingen (Dagbladet 2014-03-26) - leserinnlegg fra -Felix Horne der han ber om at Norge gjør en innsats for Ã¥ fÃ¥ slutt pÃ¥ -overvÃ¥kning av innbyggerne som gjøres i Norge av Etiopiske -myndigheter.
  • - -
  • Demokrati -er ingen naturlig styreform (Aftenposten 2014-04-01) - kronikk av -Stein Ringen om hvordan demokrati som styreform gÃ¥r tapt nÃ¥r -innbyggerne tar det for gitt.
  • - -
  • Ytringsansvar -ere Enhver tilladte! (NRK Ytring 2014-04-01) - innspill fra Trygve -Svensson og Helge Svare om at hver enkelt av oss har et ansvar for Ã¥ -ytre oss i den offentlige debatten.
  • - -
  • Jeg -er ingen god samfunnsborger (Aftenposten 2014-04-16), kronikk av -Simen Tveitereid om alternative mÃ¥ter Ã¥ motiveres i samfunnet, uten Ã¥ -hige etter mer penger og flere ting.
  • - -
  • DLD-dommen: -Avgjørelsen fÃ¥r umiddelbar virkning (Aftenposten 2014-04-10) - -kronikk av Høyres Michael Tetzschner, en partiutbryter i DLD-saken som -stemte nei til DLD i Stortinget i 2011.
  • - -
  • Datalagringsdirektivets -endelikt (blogg fra John Wessel-Aas 2014-04-11) - oppsummering -av hvordan direktivet ble funnet ugyldig i EU-domstolen.
  • - -
  • Kronikk: -Kapitulasjonspresidenten (VG 2014-04-22) - kronikk av Einar -Kr. Steffenak om hvordan Stortingspresidenten og regjeringen viser sin -prinsippløshet i møte med Kina.
  • - -
  • Innerst -inne er alle nordmenn (Aftenposten 2014-04-27) - kronikk fra Bjørn -Stærk om hvordan vi i Vesten i stor grad baserer oss pÃ¥ en fantasi om -at alle i verden bærer pÃ¥ en drøm om Ã¥ bli som oss.
  • - -
  • Det -italienske senatet gav seg selv 134 milliarder euro i sluttpakke -(Aftenposten 2014-06-19) - forsker Simen Gaure forteller hvordan -løgner og fantasi fra nettkilder i stor grad blir akseptert som -sannhet - antagelig ogsÃ¥ av deg og meg.
  • - -
  • Et -forsvar for brÃ¥kmakerne (Dagbladet 2014-05-30) - kronikk av Dag -Øystein Nome som beskriver hvordan dagens skole ikke fungerer sÃ¥ godt -for mange elever.
  • - -
  • Betalte -med slitt seddel - havnet i arresten (Osloby 2014-06-25)) - -dokumentasjon av Oslopolitiets angrep pÃ¥ vÃ¥r alles rett til Ã¥ ferdes -uten elektronisk sporing. Jeg bruker kontanter i sÃ¥ stor grad som -mulig da banken ikke har noe med hvor jeg er og hva jeg kjøper. Vi -som gjør dette risikerer som beskrevet overgrep som frihetsberøvelse -og registrering og lagring av fingeravtrykk og bilde i politiets -database over mistenkte.
  • - -
  • Fredsprisen -til Snowden (Aftenposten 2014-06-28) - leder som forklarer hvorfor -varsleren Snowden bør fÃ¥ fredsprisen.
  • - -
  • Strategi -for politistaten (Dagbladet 2014-08-01) - leder som advarer om -sterke krefter som bruker terrortrusselen til Ã¥ lirke Norge nærmere Ã¥ -bli en politistat.
  • - -
  • Vi -mÃ¥ tenke nytt om narkotika (NRK Ytring 2014-08-03) - Mark Lewis -forklarer hvorfor legalisering og offentlig kontroll av -narkotikamarkedet er mye bedre enn Ã¥ overlate det til kriminelle.
  • - - -

+ +
27th June 2017
+

Jeg kom over teksten +«Killing +car privacy by federal mandate» av Leonid Reyzin på Freedom to +Tinker i dag, og det gleder meg å se en god gjennomgang om hvorfor det +er et urimelig inngrep i privatsfæren å la alle biler kringkaste sin +posisjon og bevegelse via radio. Det omtalte forslaget basert på +Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) kalles Basic Safety Message +(BSM) i USA og Cooperative Awareness Message (CAM) i Europa, og det +norske Vegvesenet er en av de som ser ut til å kunne tenke seg å +pålegge alle biler å fjerne nok en bit av innbyggernes privatsfære. +Anbefaler alle å lese det som står der. + +

Mens jeg tittet litt på DSRC på biler i Norge kom jeg over et sitat +jeg synes er illustrativt for hvordan det offentlige Norge håndterer +problemstillinger rundt innbyggernes privatsfære i SINTEF-rapporten +«Informasjonssikkerhet +i AutoPASS-brikker» av Trond Foss:

+ +

+«Rapporten ser ikke på informasjonssikkerhet knyttet til personlig + integritet.» +

+ +

Så enkelt kan det tydeligvis gjøres når en vurderer +informasjonssikkerheten. Det holder vel at folkene på toppen kan si +at «Personvernet er ivaretatt», som jo er den populære intetsigende +frasen som gjør at mange tror enkeltindividers integritet tas vare på. +Sitatet fikk meg til å undres på hvor ofte samme tilnærming, å bare se +bort fra behovet for personlig itegritet, blir valgt når en velger å +legge til rette for nok et inngrep i privatsfæren til personer i +Norge. Det er jo sjelden det får reaksjoner. Historien om +reaksjonene på Helse Sør-Østs tjenesteutsetting er jo sørgelig nok et +unntak og toppen av isfjellet, desverre. Tror jeg fortsatt takker nei +til både AutoPASS og holder meg så langt unna det norske helsevesenet +som jeg kan, inntil de har demonstrert og dokumentert at de verdsetter +individets privatsfære og personlige integritet høyere enn kortsiktig +gevist og samfunnsnytte.

@@ -368,94 +206,66 @@ narkotikamarkedet er mye bedre enn å overlate det til kriminelle.
- -
31st July 2014
-

The complete and free “out of the box” software solution for -schools, Debian Edu / -Skolelinux, is used quite a lot in Germany, and one of the people -involved is Bernd Zeitzen, who show up on the project mailing lists -from time to time with interesting questions and tips on how to adjust -the setup. I managed to interview him this summer.

- -

Who are you, and how do you spend your days?

- -

My name is Bernd Zeitzen and I'm married with Hedda, a self -employed physiotherapist. My former profession is tool maker, but I -haven't worked for 30 years in this job. 30 years ago I started to -support my wife and become her officeworker and a few years later the -administrator for a small computer network, today based on Ubuntu -Server (Samba, OpenVPN). For her daily work she has to use Windows -Desktops because the software she needs to organize her business only -works with Windows . :-(

- -

In 1988 we started with one PC and DOS, then I learned to use -Windows 98, 2000, XP, …, 8, Ubuntu, MacOSX. Today we are running a -Linux server with 6 Windows clients and 10 persons (teacher of -children with special needs, speech therapist, occupational therapist, -psychologist and officeworkers) using our Samba shares via OpenVPN to -work with the documentations of our patients.

- -

How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu -project?

- -

Two years ago a friend of mine asked me, if I want to get a job in -his school (Gymnasium -Harsewinkel). They started with Skolelinux / Debian Edu and they -were looking for people to give support to the teachers using the -software and the network and teaching the pupils increasing their -computer skills in optional lessons. I'm spending 4-6 hours a week -with this job.

- -

What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian -Edu?

- -

The independence.

- -

First: Every person is allowed to use, share and develop the -software. Even if you are poor, you are allowed to use the software -included in Skolelinux/Debian Edu and all the other Free Software.

- -

Second: The software runs on old machines and this gives us the -possibility to recycle computers, weeded out from offices. The -servers and desktops are running for more than two years and they are -working reliable.

- -

We have two servers (one tjener and one terminal server), 45 -workstations in three classrooms and seven laptops as a mobile -solution for all classrooms. These machines are all booting from the -terminal server. In the moment we are installing 30 laptops as mobile -workstations. Then the pupils have the possibility to work with these -machines in their classrooms. Internet access is realized by a WLAN -router, connected to the schools network. This is all done without a -dedicated system administrator or a computer science teacher.

- -

What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian -Edu?

- -

Teachers and pupils are Windows users. <Irony on> And Linux -isn't cool. It's software for freaks using the command line. <Irony -off> They don't realize the stability of the system.

- -

Which free software do you use daily?

- -

Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Ubuntu Server 12.04 (Samba, -Apache, MySQL, Joomla!, … and Skolelinux / Debian Edu)

- -

Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to -get schools to use free software?

- -

In Germany we have the situation: every school is free to decide -which software they want to use. This decision is influenced by -teachers who learned to use Windows and MS Office. They buy a PC with -Windows preinstalled and an additional testing version of MS -Office. They don't know about the possibility to use Free Software -instead. Another problem are the publisher of school books. They -develop their software, added to the school books, for Windows.

+ +
12th June 2017
+

It is pleasing to see that the work we put down in publishing new +editions of the classic Free +Culture book by the founder of the Creative Commons movement, +Lawrence Lessig, is still being appreciated. I had a look at the +latest sales numbers for the paper edition today. Not too impressive, +but happy to see some buyers still exist. All the revenue from the +books is sent to the Creative +Commons Corporation, and they receive the largest cut if you buy +directly from Lulu. Most books are sold via Amazon, with Ingram +second and only a small fraction directly from Lulu. The ebook +edition is available for free from +Github.

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Title / languageQuantity
2016 jan-jun2016 jul-dec2017 jan-may
Culture Libre / French3615
Fri kultur / Norwegian710
Free Culture / English142716
Total243431
+ +

A bit sad to see the low sales number on the Norwegian edition, and +a bit surprising the English edition still selling so well.

+ +

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.

@@ -463,39 +273,59 @@ develop their software, added to the school books, for Windows.

- -
23rd July 2014
-

This summer I finally had time to continue working on the Norwegian -docbook version of the 2004 book -Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig, -to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with todays copyright -law. Yesterday, I finally completed translated the book text. There -are still some foot/end notes left to translate, the colophon page -need to be rewritten, and a few words and phrases still need to be -translated, but the Norwegian text is ready for the first proof -reading. :) More spell checking is needed, and several illustrations -need to be cleaned up. The work stopped up because I had to give -priority to other projects the last year, and the progress graph of -the translation show this very well:

- -

- -

If you want to read the result, check out the -github -project pages and the -PDF, -EPUB -and HTML version available in the -archive -directory.

- -

Please report typos, bugs and improvements to the github project if -you find any.

+ +
10th June 2017
+

I am very happy to report that the +Nikita Noark 5 +core project tagged its second release today. The free software +solution is an implementation of the Norwegian archive standard Noark +5 used by government offices in Norway. These were the changes in +version 0.1.1 since version 0.1.0 (from NEWS.md): + +

    + +
  • Continued work on the angularjs GUI, including document upload.
  • +
  • Implemented correspondencepartPerson, correspondencepartUnit and + correspondencepartInternal
  • +
  • Applied for coverity coverage and started submitting code on + regualr basis.
  • +
  • Started fixing bugs reported by coverity
  • +
  • Corrected and completed HATEOAS links to make sure entire API is + available via URLs in _links.
  • +
  • Corrected all relation URLs to use trailing slash.
  • +
  • Add initial support for storing data in ElasticSearch.
  • +
  • Now able to receive and store uploaded files in the archive.
  • +
  • Changed JSON output for object lists to have relations in _links.
  • +
  • Improve JSON output for empty object lists.
  • +
  • Now uses correct MIME type application/vnd.noark5-v4+json.
  • +
  • Added support for docker container images.
  • +
  • Added simple API browser implemented in JavaScript/Angular.
  • +
  • Started on archive client implemented in JavaScript/Angular.
  • +
  • Started on prototype to show the public mail journal.
  • +
  • Improved performance by disabling Sprint FileWatcher.
  • +
  • Added support for 'arkivskaper', 'saksmappe' and 'journalpost'.
  • +
  • Added support for some metadata codelists.
  • +
  • Added support for Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS).
  • +
  • Changed login method from Basic Auth to JSON Web Token (RFC 7519) + style.
  • +
  • Added support for GET-ing ny-* URLs.
  • +
  • Added support for modifying entities using PUT and eTag.
  • +
  • Added support for returning XML output on request.
  • +
  • Removed support for English field and class names, limiting ourself + to the official names.
  • +
  • ...
  • + +
+ +

If this sound interesting to you, please contact us on IRC (#nikita +on irc.freenode.net) or email +(nikita-noark +mailing list).

@@ -503,111 +333,99 @@ you find any.

- -
17th June 2014
-

The Debian Edu / Skolelinux -project provide an instruction manual for teachers, system -administrators and other users that contain useful tips for setting up -and maintaining a Debian Edu installation. This text is about how the -text processing of this manual is handled in the project.

- -

One goal of the project is to provide information in the native -language of its users, and for this we need to handle translations. -But we also want to make sure each language contain the same -information, so for this we need a good way to keep the translations -in sync. And we want it to be easy for our users to improve the -documentation, avoiding the need to learn special formats or tools to -contribute, and the obvious way to do this is to make it possible to -edit the documentation using a web browser. We also want it to be -easy for translators to keep the translation up to date, and give them -help in figuring out what need to be translated. Here is the list of -tools and the process we have found trying to reach all these -goals.

- -

We maintain the authoritative source of our manual in the -Debian -wiki, as several wiki pages written in English. It consist of one -front page with references to the different chapters, several pages -for each chapter, and finally one "collection page" gluing all the -chapters together into one large web page (aka -the -AllInOne page). The AllInOne page is the one used for further -processing and translations. Thanks to the fact that the -MoinMoin installation on -wiki.debian.org support exporting pages in -the Docbook format, we can fetch -the list of pages to export using the raw version of the AllInOne -page, loop over each of them to generate a Docbook XML version of the -manual. This process also download images and transform image -references to use the locally downloaded images. The generated -Docbook XML files are slightly broken, so some post-processing is done -using the documentation/scripts/get_manual program, and the -result is a nice Docbook XML file (debian-edu-wheezy-manual.xml) and -a handfull of images. The XML file can now be used to generate PDF, HTML -and epub versions of the English manual. This is the basic step of -our process, making PDF (using dblatex), HTML (using xsltproc) and -epub (using dbtoepub) version from Docbook XML, and the resulting files -are placed in the debian-edu-doc-en binary package.

- -

But English documentation is not enough for us. We want translated -documentation too, and we want to make it easy for translators to -track the English original. For this we use the -poxml package, -which allow us to transform the English Docbook XML file into a -translation file (a .pot file), usable with the normal gettext based -translation tools used by those translating free software. The pot -file is used to create and maintain translation files (several .po -files), which the translations update with the native language -translations of all titles, paragraphs and blocks of text in the -original. The next step is combining the original English Docbook XML -and the translation file (say debian-edu-wheezy-manual.nb.po), to -create a translated Docbook XML file (in this case -debian-edu-wheezy-manual.nb.xml). This translated (or partly -translated, if the translation is not complete) Docbook XML file can -then be used like the original to create a PDF, HTML and epub version -of the documentation.

- -

The translators use different tools to edit the .po files. We -recommend using -lokalize, -while some use emacs and vi, others can use web based editors like -Poodle or -Transifex. All we care about -is where the .po file end up, in our git repository. Updated -translations can either be committed directly to git, or submitted as -bug reports -against the debian-edu-doc package.

- -

One challenge is images, which both might need to be translated (if -they show translated user applications), and are needed in different -formats when creating PDF and HTML versions (epub is a HTML version in -this regard). For this we transform the original PNG images to the -needed density and format during build, and have a way to provide -translated images by storing translated versions in -images/$LANGUAGECODE/. I am a bit unsure about the details here. The -package maintainers know more.

- -

If you wonder what the result look like, we provide -the content -of the documentation packages on the web. See for example the -Italian -PDF version or the -German -HTML version. We do not yet build the epub version by default, -but perhaps it will be done in the future.

- -

To learn more, check out -the -debian-edu-doc package, -the -manual on the wiki and -the -translation instructions in the manual.

+ +
7th June 2017
+

This is a copy of +an +email I posted to the nikita-noark mailing list. Please follow up +there if you would like to discuss this topic. The background is that +we are making a free software archive system based on the Norwegian +Noark +5 standard for government archives.

+ +

I've been wondering a bit lately how trusted timestamps could be +stored in Noark 5. +Trusted +timestamps can be used to verify that some information +(document/file/checksum/metadata) have not been changed since a +specific time in the past. This is useful to verify the integrity of +the documents in the archive.

+ +

Then it occured to me, perhaps the trusted timestamps could be +stored as dokument variants (ie dokumentobjekt referered to from +dokumentbeskrivelse) with the filename set to the hash it is +stamping?

+ +

Given a "dokumentbeskrivelse" with an associated "dokumentobjekt", +a new dokumentobjekt is associated with "dokumentbeskrivelse" with the +same attributes as the stamped dokumentobjekt except these +attributes:

+ +
    + +
  • format -> "RFC3161" +
  • mimeType -> "application/timestamp-reply" +
  • formatDetaljer -> "<source URL for timestamp service>" +
  • filenavn -> "<sjekksum>.tsr" + +
+ +

This assume a service following +IETF RFC 3161 is +used, which specifiy the given MIME type for replies and the .tsr file +ending for the content of such trusted timestamp. As far as I can +tell from the Noark 5 specifications, it is OK to have several +variants/renderings of a dokument attached to a given +dokumentbeskrivelse objekt. It might be stretching it a bit to make +some of these variants represent crypto-signatures useful for +verifying the document integrity instead of representing the dokument +itself.

+ +

Using the source of the service in formatDetaljer allow several +timestamping services to be used. This is useful to spread the risk +of key compromise over several organisations. It would only be a +problem to trust the timestamps if all of the organisations are +compromised.

+ +

The following oneliner on Linux can be used to generate the tsr +file. $input is the path to the file to checksum, and $sha256 is the +SHA-256 checksum of the file (ie the ".tsr" value mentioned +above).

+ +

+openssl ts -query -data "$inputfile" -cert -sha256 -no_nonce \
+  | curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/timestamp-query" \
+      --data-binary "@-" http://zeitstempel.dfn.de > $sha256.tsr
+

+ +

To verify the timestamp, you first need to download the public key +of the trusted timestamp service, for example using this command:

+ +

+wget -O ca-cert.txt \
+  https://pki.pca.dfn.de/global-services-ca/pub/cacert/chain.txt
+

+ +

Note, the public key should be stored alongside the timestamps in +the archive to make sure it is also available 100 years from now. It +is probably a good idea to standardise how and were to store such +public keys, to make it easier to find for those trying to verify +documents 100 or 1000 years from now. :)

+ +

The verification itself is a simple openssl command:

+ +

+openssl ts -verify -data $inputfile -in $sha256.tsr \
+  -CAfile ca-cert.txt -text
+

+ +

Is there any reason this approach would not work? Is it somehow against +the Noark 5 specification?

@@ -615,57 +433,61 @@ translation instructions in the manual.

- -
16th June 2014
-

Jeg har fortsatt behov for å kunne laste ned innslag fra NRKs -nettsted av og til for å se senere når jeg ikke er på nett, men -min -oppskrift fra 2011 sluttet å fungere da NRK byttet -avspillermetode. I dag fikk jeg endelig lett etter oppdatert løsning, -og jeg er veldig glad for å fortelle at den enkleste måten å laste ned -innslag er å bruke siste versjon 2014.06.07 av -youtube-dl. Støtten i -youtube-dl kom -inn for 23 dager siden og -versjonen i -Debian fungerer fint også som backport til Debian Wheezy. Det er -et lite problem, det håndterer kun URLer med små bokstaver, men hvis -en har en URL med store bokstaver kan en bare gjøre alle store om til -små bokstaver for å få youtube-dl til å laste ned. Rapporterte -nettopp -problemet til -utviklerne, og antar de får fikset det snart.

- -

Dermed er alt klart til å laste ned dokumentarene om -USAs -hemmelige avlytting og -Selskapene -bak USAs avlytting, i tillegg til -intervjuet -med Edward Snowden gjort av den tyske tv-kanalen ARD. Anbefaler -alle å se disse, sammen med -foredraget -til Jacob Appelbaum på siste CCC-konferanse, for å forstå mer om -hvordan overvåkningen av borgerne brer om seg.

- -

Takk til gode venner på foreningen NUUGs IRC-kanal -#nuug på irc.freenode.net -for tipsene som fikk meg i mål.

- -

Oppdatering 2014-06-17: Etter at jeg publiserte -denne, ble jeg tipset om bloggposten -"Downloading -HD content from tv.nrk.no" av Ingvar Hagelund, som har alternativ -implementasjon og tips for å lage mkv-fil med undertekstene inkludert. -Kanskje den passer bedre for deg? I tillegg ble feilen i youtube-dl -ble fikset litt senere ut på dagen i går, samt at youtube-dl fikk -støtte for å laste ned undertitler. Takk til Anders Einar Hilden for -god innsats og youtube-dl-utviklerne for rask respons.

+ +
3rd June 2017
+

Aftenposten +melder i dag om feil i eksamensoppgavene for eksamen i politikk og +menneskerettigheter, der teksten i bokmåls og nynorskutgaven ikke var +like. Oppgaveteksten er gjengitt i artikkelen, og jeg ble nysgjerring +på om den fri oversetterløsningen +Apertium ville gjort en bedre +jobb enn Utdanningsdirektoratet. Det kan se slik ut.

+ +

Her er bokmålsoppgaven fra eksamenen:

+ +
+

Drøft utfordringene knyttet til nasjonalstatenes og andre aktørers +rolle og muligheter til å håndtere internasjonale utfordringer, som +for eksempel flykningekrisen.

+ +

Vedlegge er eksempler på tekster som kan gi relevante perspektiver +på temaet:

+
    +
  1. Flykningeregnskapet 2016, UNHCR og IDMC +
  2. «Grenseløst Europa for fall» A-Magasinet, 26. november 2015 +
+ +
+ +

Dette oversetter Apertium slik:

+ +
+

Drøft utfordringane knytte til nasjonalstatane sine og rolla til +andre aktørar og høve til å handtera internasjonale utfordringar, som +til dømes *flykningekrisen.

+ +

Vedleggja er døme på tekster som kan gje relevante perspektiv på +temaet:

+ +
    +
  1. *Flykningeregnskapet 2016, *UNHCR og *IDMC
  2. +
  3. «*Grenseløst Europa for fall» A-Magasinet, 26. november 2015
  4. +
+ +
+ +

Ord som ikke ble forstått er markert med stjerne (*), og trenger +ekstra språksjekk. Men ingen ord er forsvunnet, slik det var i +oppgaven elevene fikk presentert på eksamen. Jeg mistenker dog at +"andre aktørers rolle og muligheter til ..." burde vært oversatt til +"rolla til andre aktørar og deira høve til ..." eller noe slikt, men +det er kanskje flisespikking. Det understreker vel bare at det alltid +trengs korrekturlesning etter automatisk oversettelse.

@@ -673,59 +495,67 @@ god innsats og youtube-dl-utviklerne for rask respons.

- -
29th May 2014
-

Dear lazyweb. I'm planning to set up a small Raspberry Pi computer -in my car, connected to -a -small screen next to the rear mirror. I plan to hook it up with a -GPS and a USB wifi card too. The idea is to get my own -"Carputer". But I -wonder if someone already created a good free software solution for -such car computer.

- -

This is my current wish list for such system:

+ +
27th April 2017
+

I disse dager, med frist 1. mai, har Riksarkivaren ute en høring på +sin forskrift. Som en kan se er det ikke mye tid igjen før fristen +som går ut på søndag. Denne forskriften er det som lister opp hvilke +formater det er greit å arkivere i +Noark +5-løsninger i Norge.

+ +

Jeg fant høringsdokumentene hos +Norsk +Arkivråd etter å ha blitt tipset på epostlisten til +fri +programvareprosjektet Nikita Noark5-Core, som lager et Noark 5 +Tjenestegresesnitt. Jeg er involvert i Nikita-prosjektet og takket +være min interesse for tjenestegrensesnittsprosjektet har jeg lest en +god del Noark 5-relaterte dokumenter, og til min overraskelse oppdaget +at standard epost ikke er på listen over godkjente formater som kan +arkiveres. Høringen med frist søndag er en glimrende mulighet til å +forsøke å gjøre noe med det. Jeg holder på med +egen +høringsuttalelse, og lurer på om andre er interessert i å støtte +forslaget om å tillate arkivering av epost som epost i arkivet.

+ +

Er du igang med å skrive egen høringsuttalelse allerede? I så fall +kan du jo vurdere å ta med en formulering om epost-lagring. Jeg tror +ikke det trengs så mye. Her et kort forslag til tekst:

-
    - -
  • Work on Raspberry Pi.
  • - -
  • Show current speed limit based on location, and warn if going too - fast (for example using color codes yellow and red on the screen, - or make a sound). This could be done either using either data from - Openstreetmap or OCR - info gathered from a dashboard camera.
  • - -
  • Track automatic toll road passes and their cost, show total spent - and make it possible to calculate toll costs for planned - route.
  • - -
  • Collect GPX tracks for use with OpenStreetMap.
  • - -
  • Automatically detect and use any wireless connection to connect - to home server. Try IP over DNS - (iodine) or ICMP - (Hans) if direct - connection do not work.
  • +

    -
  • Set up mesh network to talk to other cars with the same system, - or some standard car mesh protocol.
  • +

    Viser til høring sendt ut 2017-02-17 (Riksarkivarens referanse + 2016/9840 HELHJO), og tillater oss å sende inn noen innspill om + revisjon av Forskrift om utfyllende tekniske og arkivfaglige + bestemmelser om behandling av offentlige arkiver (Riksarkivarens + forskrift).

    -
  • Warn when approaching speed cameras and speed camera ranges - (speed calculated between two cameras).
  • +

    Svært mye av vår kommuikasjon foregår i dag på e-post.  Vi + foreslår derfor at Internett-e-post, slik det er beskrevet i IETF + RFC 5322, + https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322. bør + inn som godkjent dokumentformat.  Vi foreslår at forskriftens + oversikt over godkjente dokumentformater ved innlevering i § 5-16 + endres til å ta med Internett-e-post.

    -
  • Suport dashboard/front facing camera to discover speed limits and - run OCR to track registration number of passing cars.
  • +

    -
+

Som del av arbeidet med tjenestegrensesnitt har vi testet hvordan +epost kan lagres i en Noark 5-struktur, og holder på å skrive et +forslag om hvordan dette kan gjøres som vil bli sendt over til +arkivverket så snart det er ferdig. De som er interesserte kan +følge +fremdriften på web.

-

If you know of any free software car computer system supporting -some or all of these features, please let me know.

+

Oppdatering 2017-04-28: I dag ble høringuttalelsen jeg skrev + sendt + inn av foreningen NUUG.

- Tags: english. + Tags: norsk, offentlig innsyn, standard.
@@ -733,54 +563,52 @@ some or all of these features, please let me know.

- -
29th April 2014
-

I've been following the Gnash -project for quite a while now. It is a free software -implementation of Adobe Flash, both a standalone player and a browser -plugin. Gnash implement support for the AVM1 format (and not the -newer AVM2 format - see -Lightspark for that one), -allowing several flash based sites to work. Thanks to the friendly -developers at Youtube, it also work with Youtube videos, because the -Javascript code at Youtube detect Gnash and serve a AVM1 player to -those users. :) Would be great if someone found time to implement AVM2 -support, but it has not happened yet. If you install both Lightspark -and Gnash, Lightspark will invoke Gnash if it find a AVM1 flash file, -so you can get both handled as free software. Unfortunately, -Lightspark so far only implement a small subset of AVM2, and many -sites do not work yet.

- -

A few months ago, I started looking at -Coverity, the static source -checker used to find heaps and heaps of bugs in free software (thanks -to the donation of a scanning service to free software projects by the -company developing this non-free code checker), and Gnash was one of -the projects I decided to check out. Coverity is able to find lock -errors, memory errors, dead code and more. A few days ago they even -extended it to also be able to find the heartbleed bug in OpenSSL. -There are heaps of checks being done on the instrumented code, and the -amount of bogus warnings is quite low compared to the other static -code checkers I have tested over the years.

- -

Since a few weeks ago, I've been working with the other Gnash -developers squashing bugs discovered by Coverity. I was quite happy -today when I checked the current status and saw that of the 777 issues -detected so far, 374 are marked as fixed. This make me confident that -the next Gnash release will be more stable and more dependable than -the previous one. Most of the reported issues were and are in the -test suite, but it also found a few in the rest of the code.

- -

If you want to help out, you find us on -the -gnash-dev mailing list and on -the #gnash channel on -irc.freenode.net IRC server.

+ +
20th April 2017
+

Jeg oppdaget i dag at nettstedet som +publiserer offentlige postjournaler fra statlige etater, OEP, har +begynt å blokkerer enkelte typer webklienter fra å få tilgang. Vet +ikke hvor mange det gjelder, men det gjelder i hvert fall libwww-perl +og curl. For å teste selv, kjør følgende:

+ +
+% curl -v -s https://www.oep.no/pub/report.xhtml?reportId=3 2>&1 |grep '< HTTP'
+< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
+% curl -v -s --header 'User-Agent:Opera/12.0' https://www.oep.no/pub/report.xhtml?reportId=3 2>&1 |grep '< HTTP'
+< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+%
+
+ +

Her kan en se at tjenesten gir «404 Not Found» for curl i +standardoppsettet, mens den gir «200 OK» hvis curl hevder å være Opera +versjon 12.0. Offentlig elektronisk postjournal startet blokkeringen +2017-03-02.

+ +

Blokkeringen vil gjøre det litt vanskeligere å maskinelt hente +informasjon fra oep.no. Kan blokkeringen være gjort for å hindre +automatisert innsamling av informasjon fra OEP, slik Pressens +Offentlighetsutvalg gjorde for å dokumentere hvordan departementene +hindrer innsyn i +rapporten +«Slik hindrer departementer innsyn» som ble publiserte i januar +2017. Det virker usannsynlig, da det jo er trivielt å bytte +User-Agent til noe nytt.

+ +

Finnes det juridisk grunnlag for det offentlige å diskriminere +webklienter slik det gjøres her? Der tilgang gis eller ikke alt etter +hva klienten sier at den heter? Da OEP eies av DIFI og driftes av +Basefarm, finnes det kanskje noen dokumenter sendt mellom disse to +aktørene man kan be om innsyn i for å forstå hva som har skjedd. Men +postjournalen +til DIFI viser kun to dokumenter det siste året mellom DIFI og +Basefarm. +Mimes brønn neste, +tenker jeg.

@@ -788,94 +616,101 @@ irc.freenode.net IRC server.

- -
23rd April 2014
-

It would be nice if it was easier in Debian to get all the hardware -related packages relevant for the computer installed automatically. -So I implemented one, using -my Isenkram -package. To use it, install the tasksel and isenkram packages and -run tasksel as user root. You should be presented with a new option, -"Hardware specific packages (autodetected by isenkram)". When you -select it, tasksel will install the packages isenkram claim is fit for -the current hardware, hot pluggable or not.

- -

The implementation is in two files, one is the tasksel menu entry -description, and the other is the script used to extract the list of -packages to install. The first part is in -/usr/share/tasksel/descs/isenkram.desc and look like -this:

- -

-Task: isenkram
-Section: hardware
-Description: Hardware specific packages (autodetected by isenkram)
- Based on the detected hardware various hardware specific packages are
- proposed.
-Test-new-install: mark show
-Relevance: 8
-Packages: for-current-hardware
-

- -

The second part is in -/usr/lib/tasksel/packages/for-current-hardware and look like -this:

+ +
19th March 2017
+

The Nikita +Noark 5 core project is implementing the Norwegian standard for +keeping an electronic archive of government documents. +The +Noark 5 standard document the requirement for data systems used by +the archives in the Norwegian government, and the Noark 5 web interface +specification document a REST web service for storing, searching and +retrieving documents and metadata in such archive. I've been involved +in the project since a few weeks before Christmas, when the Norwegian +Unix User Group +announced +it supported the project. I believe this is an important project, +and hope it can make it possible for the government archives in the +future to use free software to keep the archives we citizens depend +on. But as I do not hold such archive myself, personally my first use +case is to store and analyse public mail journal metadata published +from the government. I find it useful to have a clear use case in +mind when developing, to make sure the system scratches one of my +itches.

+ +

If you would like to help make sure there is a free software +alternatives for the archives, please join our IRC channel +(#nikita on +irc.freenode.net) and +the +project mailing list.

+ +

When I got involved, the web service could store metadata about +documents. But a few weeks ago, a new milestone was reached when it +became possible to store full text documents too. Yesterday, I +completed an implementation of a command line tool +archive-pdf to upload a PDF file to the archive using this +API. The tool is very simple at the moment, and find existing +fonds, series and +files while asking the user to select which one to use if more than +one exist. Once a file is identified, the PDF is associated with the +file and uploaded, using the title extracted from the PDF itself. The +process is fairly similar to visiting the archive, opening a cabinet, +locating a file and storing a piece of paper in the archive. Here is +a test run directly after populating the database with test data using +our API tester:

-#!/bin/sh
-#
-(
-    isenkram-lookup
-    isenkram-autoinstall-firmware -l
-) | sort -u
+~/src//noark5-tester$ ./archive-pdf mangelmelding/mangler.pdf
+using arkiv: Title of the test fonds created 2017-03-18T23:49:32.103446
+using arkivdel: Title of the test series created 2017-03-18T23:49:32.103446
+
+ 0 - Title of the test case file created 2017-03-18T23:49:32.103446
+ 1 - Title of the test file created 2017-03-18T23:49:32.103446
+Select which mappe you want (or search term): 0
+Uploading mangelmelding/mangler.pdf
+  PDF title: Mangler i spesifikasjonsdokumentet for NOARK 5 Tjenestegrensesnitt
+  File 2017/1: Title of the test case file created 2017-03-18T23:49:32.103446
+~/src//noark5-tester$
 

-

All in all, a very short and simple implementation making it -trivial to install the hardware dependent package we all may want to -have installed on our machines. I've not been able to find a way to -get tasksel to tell you exactly which packages it plan to install -before doing the installation. So if you are curious or careful, -check the output from the isenkram-* command line tools first.

- -

The information about which packages are handling which hardware is -fetched either from the isenkram package itself in -/usr/share/isenkram/, from git.debian.org or from the APT package -database (using the Modaliases header). The APT package database -parsing have caused a nasty resource leak in the isenkram daemon (bugs -#719837 and -#730704). The cause is in -the python-apt code (bug -#745487), but using a -workaround I was able to get rid of the file descriptor leak and -reduce the memory leak from ~30 MiB per hardware detection down to -around 2 MiB per hardware detection. It should make the desktop -daemon a lot more useful. The fix is in version 0.7 uploaded to -unstable today.

- -

I believe the current way of mapping hardware to packages in -Isenkram is is a good draft, but in the future I expect isenkram to -use the AppStream data source for this. A proposal for getting proper -AppStream support into Debian is floating around as -DEP-11, and -GSoC -project will take place this summer to improve the situation. I -look forward to seeing the result, and welcome patches for isenkram to -start using the information when it is ready.

- -

If you want your package to map to some specific hardware, either -add a "Xb-Modaliases" header to your control file like I did in -the pymissile -package or submit a bug report with the details to the isenkram -package. See also -all my -blog posts tagged isenkram for details on the notation. I expect -the information will be migrated to AppStream eventually, but for the -moment I got no better place to store it.

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You can see here how the fonds (arkiv) and serie (arkivdel) only had +one option, while the user need to choose which file (mappe) to use +among the two created by the API tester. The archive-pdf +tool can be found in the git repository for the API tester.

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In the project, I have been mostly working on +the API +tester so far, while getting to know the code base. The API +tester currently use +the HATEOAS links +to traverse the entire exposed service API and verify that the exposed +operations and objects match the specification, as well as trying to +create objects holding metadata and uploading a simple XML file to +store. The tester has proved very useful for finding flaws in our +implementation, as well as flaws in the reference site and the +specification.

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The test document I uploaded is a summary of all the specification +defects we have collected so far while implementing the web service. +There are several unclear and conflicting parts of the specification, +and we have +started +writing down the questions we get from implementing it. We use a +format inspired by how The +Austin Group collect defect reports for the POSIX standard with +their +instructions for the MANTIS defect tracker system, in lack of an official way to structure defect reports for Noark 5 (our first submitted defect report was a request for a procedure for submitting defect reports :). + +

The Nikita project is implemented using Java and Spring, and is +fairly easy to get up and running using Docker containers for those +that want to test the current code base. The API tester is +implemented in Python.

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