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  21     <h3>Entries tagged "web".</h3>
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  25         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_sorry_state_of_multimedia_browser_plugins_in_Debian.html">The sorry state of multimedia browser plugins in Debian</a>
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  28         25th November 2008
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  31         <p>Recently I have spent some time evaluating the multimedia browser
  32 plugins available in Debian Lenny, to see which one we should use by
  33 default in Debian Edu.  We need an embedded video playing plugin with
  34 control buttons to pause or stop the video, and capable of streaming
  35 all the multimedia content available on the web.  The test results and
  36 notes are available on
  37 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia">the
  38 Debian wiki</a>.  I was surprised how few of the plugins are able to
  39 fill this need.  My personal video player favorite, VLC, has a really
  40 bad plugin which fail on a lot of the test pages.  A lot of the MIME
  41 types I would expect to work with any free software player (like
  42 video/ogg), just do not work.  And simple formats like the
  43 audio/x-mplegurl format (m3u playlists), just isn't supported by the
  44 totem and vlc plugins.  I hope the situation will improve soon.  No
  45 wonder sites use the proprietary Adobe flash to play video.</p>
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  47 <p>For Lenny, we seem to end up with the mplayer plugin.  It seem to
  48 be the only one fitting our needs. :/</p>
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  54         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
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  63         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/When_web_browser_developers_make_a_video_player___.html">When web browser developers make a video player...</a>
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  66         17th January 2009
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  69         <p>As part of the work we do in <a href="http://www.nuug.no">NUUG</a>
  70 to publish video recordings of our monthly presentations, we provide a
  71 page with embedded video for easy access to the recording.  Putting a
  72 good set of HTML tags together to get working embedded video in all
  73 browsers and across all operating systems is not easy.  I hope this
  74 will become easier when the &lt;video&gt; tag is implemented in all
  75 browsers, but I am not sure.  We provide the recordings in several
  76 formats, MPEG1, Ogg Theora, H.264 and Quicktime, and want the
  77 browser/media plugin to pick one it support and use it to play the
  78 recording, using whatever embed mechanism the browser understand.
  79 There is at least four different tags to use for this, the new HTML5
  80 &lt;video&gt; tag, the &lt;object&gt; tag, the &lt;embed&gt; tag and
  81 the &lt;applet&gt; tag.  All of these take a lot of options, and
  82 finding the best options is a major challenge.</p>
  83
  84 <p>I just tested the experimental Opera browser available from <a
  85 href="http://labs.opera.com">labs.opera.com</a>, to see how it handled
  86 a &lt;video&gt; tag with a few video sources and no extra attributes.
  87 I was not very impressed.  The browser start by fetching a picture
  88 from the video stream.  Not sure if it is the first frame, but it is
  89 definitely very early in the recording.  So far, so good. Next,
  90 instead of streaming the 76 MiB video file, it start to download all
  91 of it, but do not start to play the video.  This mean I have to wait
  92 for several minutes for the downloading to finish.  When the download
  93 is done, the playing of the video do not start!  Waiting for the
  94 download, but I do not get to see the video?  Some testing later, I
  95 discover that I have to add the controls="true" attribute to be able
  96 to get a play button to pres to start the video.  Adding
  97 autoplay="true" did not help.  I sure hope this is a misfeature of the
  98 test version of Opera, and that future implementations of the
  99 &lt;video&gt; tag will stream recordings by default, or at least start
 100 playing when the download is done.</p>
 101
 102 <p>The test page I used (since changed to add more attributes) is
 103 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20090113-foredrag-om-foredrag/">available
 104 from the nuug site</a>.  Will have to test it with the new Firefox
 105 too.</p>
 106
 107 <p>In the test process, I discovered a missing feature.  I was unable
 108 to find a way to get the URL of the playing video out of Opera, so I
 109 am not quite sure it picked the Ogg Theora version of the video.  I
 110 sure hope it was using the announced Ogg Theora support. :)</p>
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 116         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
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 125         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fildeling_er_lovlig___ulovlig_fildeling_er_ulovlig.html">Fildeling er lovlig - ulovlig fildeling er ulovlig</a>
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 127       <div class="date">
 128         17th April 2009
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 131         <p>Jeg hadde glede av å overvære FADs lansering av
 132 <a href="http://www.deltemeninger.no/">Debattsentralen
 133 deltemeninger.no</a> under Go Open 2009, og må si jeg ble skuffet over
 134 en kommentar fra podiet om ulovlig fildeling.  Fikk ikke med meg hvem
 135 som holdt innlegget, men det startet med å snakke om ulovlig fildeling
 136 og gikk så over til å snakke om fildeling som om fildeling i seg er
 137 ulovlig.  Intet er lengre fra sannheten.  Fildeling er en nyttig
 138 teknologi som benyttes av NRK, Debian, Ubuntu, NUUG og andre for
 139 distribusjon av filer.  Det er ingenting med denne fildelingen som
 140 gjør den ulovlig.  Fildeling er i seg selv en fullt ut lovlig
 141 teknologisk anvendelse.  Noe fildeling er ulovlig, og noe er lovlig.
 142 De som tror at fildeling er ulovlig har misforstått grovt.  Hvorvidt
 143 den er ulovlig kommer jo an på hvem som har opphavsretten til filene
 144 som deles og hvilke bruksbegrensninger som gjelder for filene.  En
 145 rekke filer er lagt ut av rettighetsinnehaver for deling på Internet,
 146 og fildeling av slike filer er fullt ut lovlig.</p>
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 152         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fildeling">fildeling</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
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 161         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nasjonalbiblioteket_legger_ut_b_ker_p__web.html">Nasjonalbiblioteket legger ut bøker på web</a>
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 163       <div class="date">
 164         23rd April 2009
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 166       <div class="body">
 167         <p><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/kul_und/litteratur/article3042382.ece">Aftenposten
 168 melder</a> at
 169 <a href="http://www.nb.no/aktuelt/50_000_norske_boeker_gratis_tilgjengelig_paa_nett_helt_lovlig">nasjonalbiblioteket
 170 og Kopinor har gjort en avtale</a> som gjør at eldre bøker kan gjøres
 171 digitalt tilgjengelig fra nasjonalbiblioteket mot at Kopinor får 56
 172 øre for hver side som legges ut.  Utvalget er litt merkelig: 1790-,
 173 1890- og 1990-tallet.  Jeg synes det er absurd hvis det er slik at
 174 Kopinor skal ha betalt for utlegging av bøker som ikke lenger er
 175 beskyttet av opphavsretten.  Jeg antar her at det er mer enn 90 år
 176 siden forfatterne av bøker som ble publisert 1790-1799 døde, slik at
 177 disse bøkene er falt i det fri og enhver kan kopiere så mye de vil fra
 178 dem uten å bryte opphavsrettsloven.  Bruk av slike verk har ikke
 179 Kopinor noe med å gjøre.  Jeg håper jeg har misforstått.
 180 <a href="http://www.nb.no/aktuelt/no_er_vi_i_gang_med_aa_digitalisere_samlingane_vaare_og_formidle_digitalt">En
 181 melding fra nasjonalbiblioteket i 2007</a> tyder på at tekster i det
 182 fri ikke trenger avtale med Kopinor.</p>
 183
 184 <p>Et annet problem er at bøkene kun legges ut som bildefiler, noe som
 185 vil gjøre at søketjenester ikke vil finne disse bøkene når en søker
 186 etter fragmenter i teksten.  En risikerer dermed at de blir liggende
 187 på en slik måte at folk som bruker Google ikke finner dem.</p>
 188
 189 <p>Da skulle jeg heller sett at nasjonalbiblioteket gjorde alvor av
 190 sin aprilspøk, og la ut bøkene som faller i det fri
 191 fortløpende.</p>
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 198         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fildeling">fildeling</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
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 207         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Relative_popularity_of_document_formats__MS_Office_vs__ODF_.html">Relative popularity of document formats (MS Office vs. ODF)</a>
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 210         12th August 2009
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 213         <p>Just for fun, I did a search right now on Google for a few file ODF
 214 and MS Office based formats (not to be mistaken for ISO or ECMA
 215 OOXML), to get an idea of their relative usage.  I searched using
 216 'filetype:odt' and equvalent terms, and got these results:</P>
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 218 <table>
 219 <tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
 220 <tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:282000</td> <td>docx:308000</td></tr>
 221 <tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:75600</td> <td>pptx:183000</td></tr>
 222 <tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:26500     </td> <td>xlsx:145000</td></tr>
 223 </table>
 224
 225 <p>Next, I added a 'site:no' limit to get the numbers for Norway, and
 226 got these numbers:</p>
 227
 228 <table>
 229 <tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
 230 <tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:2480 </td> <td>docx:4460</td></tr>
 231 <tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:299   </td> <td>pptx:741</td></tr>
 232 <tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:187       </td> <td>xlsx:372</td></tr>
 233 </table>
 234
 235 <p>I wonder how these numbers change over time.</p>
 236
 237 <p>I am aware of Google returning different results and numbers based
 238 on where the search is done, so I guess these numbers will differ if
 239 they are conduced in another country.  Because of this, I did the same
 240 search from a machine in California, USA, a few minutes after the
 241 search done from a machine here in Norway.</p>
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 243
 244 <table>
 245 <tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
 246 <tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:129000</td> <td>docx:308000</td></tr>
 247 <tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:44200</td> <td>pptx:93900</td></tr>
 248 <tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:26500     </td> <td>xlsx:82400</td></tr>
 249 </table>
 250
 251 <p>And with 'site:no':
 252
 253 <table>
 254 <tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
 255 <tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:2480</td> <td>docx:3410</td></tr>
 256 <tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:175</td> <td>pptx:604</td></tr>
 257 <tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:186       </td> <td>xlsx:296</td></tr>
 258 </table>
 259
 260 <p>Interesting difference, not sure what to conclude from these
 261 numbers.</p>
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 267         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
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 276         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Great_book___Content__Selected_Essays_on_Technology__Creativity__Copyright__and_the_Future_of_the_Future_.html">Great book: "Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future"</a>
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 279         19th April 2010
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 282         <p>The last few weeks i have had the pleasure of reading a
 283 thought-provoking collection of essays by Cory Doctorow, on topics
 284 touching copyright, virtual worlds, the future of man when the
 285 conscience mind can be duplicated into a computer and many more. The
 286 book titled "Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity,
 287 Copyright, and the Future of the Future" is available with few
 288 restrictions on the web, for example from
 289 <a href="http://craphound.com/content/">his own site</a>. I read the
 290 epub-version from
 291 <a href="http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2883">feedbooks</a> using
 292 <a href="http://www.fbreader.org/">fbreader</a> and my N810. I
 293 strongly recommend this book.</p>
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 299         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fildeling">fildeling</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
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 308         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenStreetmap_one_step_closer_to_having_routing_on_its_front_page.html">OpenStreetmap one step closer to having routing on its front page</a>
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 311         18th July 2010
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 314         <p>Thanks to
 315 <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Opengeodata/~3/wUTCzDZk3lc/project-of-the-week-which-way-home">todays
 316 opengeodata blog entry</a>, I just discovered that the
 317 OpenStreetmap.org site have gotten
 318 <a href="http://nroets.dev.openstreetmap.org/demo/index.html?layers=B000FTFTT">support
 319 for calculating routes</a>.  The support is still experimental and
 320 only available from the development server, until more experience is
 321 gathered on the user interface and any scalability issues.</p>
 322
 323 <p>Earlier, the routing I knew about using the OpenStreetmap.org data
 324 was provided by <a href="http://maps.cloudmade.com/">Cloudmade</a>,
 325 but having it on the main page is required to make everyone aware of
 326 the issue.  I've had people reject Openstreetmap.org as a viable
 327 alternative for them because the front page lacked routing support,
 328 and I hope their needs will be catered for when routing show up on the
 329 www.openstreetmap.org front page.</p>
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 335         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
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 344         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_notes_on_Flash_in_Debian_and_Debian_Edu.html">Some notes on Flash in Debian and Debian Edu</a>
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 346       <div class="date">
 347          4th September 2010
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 350         <p>In the <a href="http://popcon.debian.org/unknown/by_vote">Debian
 351 popularity-contest numbers</a>, the adobe-flashplugin package the
 352 second most popular used package that is missing in Debian.  The sixth
 353 most popular is flashplayer-mozilla.  This is a clear indication that
 354 working flash is important for Debian users.  Around 10 percent of the
 355 users submitting data to popcon.debian.org have this package
 356 installed.</p>
 357
 358 <p>In the report written by Lars Risan in August 2008
 359 («<a href="http://wiki.skolelinux.no/Dokumentasjon/Rapporter?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Skolelinux_i_bruk_rapport_1.0.pdf">Skolelinux
 360 i bruk – Rapport for Hurum kommune, Universitetet i Agder og
 361 stiftelsen SLX Debian Labs</a>»), one of the most important problems
 362 schools experienced with <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian
 363 Edu/Skolelinux</a> was the lack of working Flash.  A lot of educational
 364 web sites require Flash to work, and lacking working Flash support in
 365 the web browser and the problems with installing it was perceived as a
 366 good reason to stay with Windows.</p>
 367
 368 <p>I once saw a funny and sad comment in a web forum, where Linux was
 369 said to be the retarded cousin that did not really understand
 370 everything you told him but could work fairly well.  This was a
 371 comment regarding the problems Linux have with proprietary formats and
 372 non-standard web pages, and is sad because it exposes a fairly common
 373 understanding of whose fault it is if web pages that only work in for
 374 example Internet Explorer 6 fail to work on Firefox, and funny because
 375 it explain very well how annoying it is for users when Linux
 376 distributions do not work with the documents they receive or the web
 377 pages they want to visit.</p>
 378
 379 <p>This is part of the reason why I believe it is important for Debian
 380 and Debian Edu to have a well working Flash implementation in the
 381 distribution, to get at least popular sites as Youtube and Google
 382 Video to working out of the box.  For Squeeze, Debian have the chance
 383 to include the latest version of Gnash that will make this happen, as
 384 the new release 0.8.8 was published a few weeks ago and is resting in
 385 unstable.  The new version work with more sites that version 0.8.7.
 386 The Gnash maintainers have asked for a freeze exception, but the
 387 release team have not had time to reply to it yet.  I hope they agree
 388 with me that Flash is important for the Debian desktop users, and thus
 389 accept the new package into Squeeze.</p>
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 395         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
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 404         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html">Terms of use for video produced by a Canon IXUS 130 digital camera</a>
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 406       <div class="date">
 407          9th September 2010
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 409       <div class="body">
 410         <p>A few days ago I had the mixed pleasure of bying a new digital
 411 camera, a Canon IXUS 130.  It was instructive and very disturbing to
 412 be able to verify that also this camera producer have the nerve to
 413 specify how I can or can not use the videos produced with the camera.
 414 Even thought I was aware of the issue, the options with new cameras
 415 are limited and I ended up bying the camera anyway.  What is the
 416 problem, you might ask?  It is software patents, MPEG-4, H.264 and the
 417 MPEG-LA that is the problem, and our right to record our experiences
 418 without asking for permissions that is at risk.
 419
 420 <p>On page 27 of the Danish instruction manual, this section is
 421 written:</p>
 422
 423 <blockquote>
 424 <p>This product is licensed under AT&T patents for the MPEG-4 standard
 425 and may be used for encoding MPEG-4 compliant video and/or decoding
 426 MPEG-4 compliant video that was encoded only (1) for a personal and
 427 non-commercial purpose or (2) by a video provider licensed under the
 428 AT&T patents to provide MPEG-4 compliant video.</p>
 429
 430 <p>No license is granted or implied for any other use for MPEG-4
 431 standard.</p>
 432 </blockquote>
 433
 434 <p>In short, the camera producer have chosen to use technology
 435 (MPEG-4/H.264) that is only provided if I used it for personal and
 436 non-commercial purposes, or ask for permission from the organisations
 437 holding the knowledge monopoly (patent) for technology used.</p>
 438
 439 <p>This issue has been brewing for a while, and I recommend you to
 440 read
 441 "<a href="http://www.osnews.com/story/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Video_Art_and_Culture_is_Threatened_by_the_MPEG-LA">Why
 442 Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the
 443 MPEG-LA</a>" by Eugenia Loli-Queru and
 444 "<a href="http://webmink.com/2010/09/03/h-264-and-foss/">H.264 Is Not
 445 The Sort Of Free That Matters</a>" by Simon Phipps to learn more about
 446 the issue.  The solution is to support the
 447 <a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">free and
 448 open standards</a> for video, like <a href="http://www.theora.org/">Ogg
 449 Theora</a>, and avoid MPEG-4 and H.264 if you can.</p>
 450
 451       </div>
 452       <div class="tags">
 453
 454
 455         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/digistan">digistan</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fildeling">fildeling</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
 456
 457
 458       </div>
 459     </div>
 460     <div class="padding"></div>
 461
 462     <div class="entry">
 463       <div class="title">
 464         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Standardkrav_inn_i_anbudstekster_.html">Standardkrav inn i anbudstekster?</a>
 465       </div>
 466       <div class="date">
 467         17th October 2010
 468       </div>
 469       <div class="body">
 470         <p>Hvis det å følge standarder skal ha noen effekt overfor
 471 leverandører, så må slike krav og ønsker komme inn i anbudstekster når
 472 systemer kjøpes inn.  Har ikke sett noen slike formuleringer i anbud
 473 så langt, men har tenkt litt på hva som bør inn.  Her er noen ideer og
 474 forslag.  Min drøm er at en kan sette krav til slik støtte i
 475 anbudstekster, men så langt er det nok mer sannsynlig at en må nøye
 476 seg med å skrive at det er en fordel om slik støtte er tilstede i
 477 leveranser.</p>
 478
 479 <p>Som systemadministrator på Universitetet er det typisk to områder
 480 som er problematiske for meg.  Det ene er admin-grensesnittene på
 481 tjenermaskiner, som vi ønsker å bruke via ssh.  Det andre er nettsider
 482 som vi ønsker å bruke via en nettleser.  For begge deler er det viktig
 483 at protokollene og formatene som brukes følger standarder våre verktøy
 484 støtter.</p>
 485
 486 <p>De fleste har nå støtte for SSH som overføringsprotkoll for
 487 admin-grensesnittet, men det er ikke tilstrekkelig for å kunne stille
 488 inn f.eks BIOS og RAID-kontroller via ssh-forbindelsen.  Det er flere
 489 aktuelle protokoller for fremvisning av BIOS-oppsett og
 490 oppstartmeldinger, og min anbefaling ville være å kreve
 491 VT100-kompatibel protokoll, for å sikre at flest mulig
 492 terminalemulatorer kan forstå hva som kommer fra admin-grensesnittet
 493 via ssh.  Andre aktuelle alternativer er ANSI-terminalemulering og
 494 VT220.  Kanskje en formulering ala dette i anbudsutlysninger vil
 495 fungere:</p>
 496
 497 <p><blockquote>
 498 BIOS og oppstartmeldinger i administrasjonsgrensesnittet til maskinen
 499 bør/skal være tilgjengelig via SSH-protokollen som definert av IETF
 500 (RFC 4251 mfl.) og følge terminalfremvisningprotokollen VT100 (ref?)
 501 når en kobler seg til oppstart via ssh.
 502 </blockquote></p>
 503
 504 <p>Har ikke lykkes med å finne en god referanse for
 505 VT100-spesifikasjonen.</p>
 506
 507 <p>Når det gjelder nettsider, så er det det HTML, CSS og
 508 JavaScript-spesifikasjonen til W3C som gjelder.</p>
 509
 510 <p><blockquote>
 511 Alle systemets nettsider bør/skal være i henhold til statens
 512 standardkatalogs krav om nettsider og følge HTML-standarden som
 513 definert av W3C, og validere uten feil hos W3Cs HTML-validator
 514 (http://validator.w3.org).  Hvis det brukes CSS så bør/skal denne
 515 validere uten feil hos W3Cs CSS-validator
 516 (http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/).  Eventuelle JavaScript skal
 517 være i henhold til EcmaScript-standarden.  I tillegg til å følge de
 518 overnevnte standardene skal websidene fungere i nettleserne (fyll inn
 519 relevant liste for organisasjonen) Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 8,
 520 Opera 9, etc.
 521 </blockquote></p>
 522
 523 <p>Vil et slikt avsnitt være konkret nok til å få leverandørene til å
 524 lage nettsider som følger standardene og fungerer i flere
 525 nettlesere?</p>
 526
 527 <p>Tar svært gjerne imot innspill på dette temaet til aktive (at)
 528 nuug.no, og er spesielt interessert i hva andre skriver i sine anbud
 529 for å oppmuntre leverandører til å følge standardene.  Kanskje NUUG
 530 burde lage et dokument med forslag til standardformuleringer å ta med
 531 i anbudsutlysninger?</p>
 532
 533 <p>Oppdatering 2010-12-03: I følge Wikipedias oppføring om
 534 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code">ANSI escape
 535 code</a>, så bruker VT100-terminaler ECMA-48-spesifikasjonen som
 536 basis for sin oppførsel.  Det kan dermed være et alternativ når en
 537 skal spesifisere hvordan seriell-konsoll skal fungere.</p>
 538
 539       </div>
 540       <div class="tags">
 541
 542
 543         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
 544
 545
 546       </div>
 547     </div>
 548     <div class="padding"></div>
 549
 550     <div class="entry">
 551       <div class="title">
 552         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Pledge_for_funding_to_the_Gnash_project_to_get_AVM2_support.html">Pledge for funding to the Gnash project to get AVM2 support</a>
 553       </div>
 554       <div class="date">
 555         19th October 2010
 556       </div>
 557       <div class="body">
 558         <p><a href="http://www.getgnash.org/">The Gnash project</a> is the
 559 most promising solution for a Free Software Flash implementation. It
 560 has done great so far, but there is still far to go, and recently its
 561 funding has dried up.  I believe AVM2 support in Gnash is vital to the
 562 continued progress of the project, as more and more sites show up with
 563 AVM2 flash files.</p>
 564
 565 <p>To try to get funding for developing such support, I have started
 566 <a href="http://www.pledgebank.com/gnash-avm2">a pledge</a> with the
 567 following text:</P>
 568
 569 <p><blockquote>
 570
 571   <p>"I will pay 100$ to the Gnash project to develop AVM2 support but
 572   only if 10 other people will do the same."</p>
 573
 574   <p>- Petter Reinholdtsen, free software developer</p>
 575
 576   <p>Deadline to sign up by: 24th December 2010</p>
 577
 578   <p>The Gnash project need to get support for the new Flash file
 579   format AVM2 to work with a lot of sites using Flash on the
 580   web. Gnash already work with a lot of Flash sites using the old AVM1
 581   format, but more and more sites are using the AVM2 format these
 582   days. The project web page is available from
 583   http://www.getgnash.org/ . Gnash is a free software implementation
 584   of Adobe Flash, allowing those of us that do not accept the terms of
 585   the Adobe Flash license to get access to Flash sites.</p>
 586
 587   <p>The project need funding to get developers to put aside enough
 588   time to develop the AVM2 support, and this pledge is my way to try
 589   to get this to happen.</p>
 590
 591   <p>The project accept donations via the OpenMediaNow foundation,
 592   <a href="http://www.openmedianow.org/?q=node/32">http://www.openmedianow.org/?q=node/32</a> .</p>
 593
 594 </blockquote></p>
 595
 596 <p>I hope you will support this effort too.  I hope more than 10
 597 people will participate to make this happen.  The more money the
 598 project gets, the more features it can develop using these funds.
 599 :)</p>
 600
 601       </div>
 602       <div class="tags">
 603
 604
 605         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
 606
 607
 608       </div>
 609     </div>
 610     <div class="padding"></div>
 611
 612     <div class="entry">
 613       <div class="title">
 614         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Best___ikke_fortelle_noen_at_streaming_er_nedlasting___.html">Best å ikke fortelle noen at streaming er nedlasting...</a>
 615       </div>
 616       <div class="date">
 617         30th October 2010
 618       </div>
 619       <div class="body">
 620         <p>I dag la jeg inn en kommentar på en sak hos NRKBeta
 621 <a href="http://nrkbeta.no/2010/10/27/bakom-blindpassasjer-del-1/">om
 622 hvordan TV-serien Blindpassasjer ble laget</a> i forbindelse med at
 623 filmene NRK la ut ikke var tilgjengelig i et
 624 <a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">fritt og
 625 åpent format</a>.  Dette var det jeg skrev publiserte der 07:39.</p>
 626
 627 <p><blockquote>
 628 <p>"Vi fikk en kommentar rundt måten streamet innhold er beskyttet fra
 629 nedlasting.  Mange av oss som kan mer enn gjennomsnittet om systemer
 630 som dette, vet at det stort sett er mulig å lure ut ting med den
 631 nødvendige forkunnskapen."</p>
 632
 633 <p>Haha.  Å streame innhold er det samme som å laste ned innhold, så å
 634 beskytte en stream mot nedlasting er ikke mulig.  Å skrive noe slikt
 635 er å forlede leseren.</p>
 636
 637 <p>Med den bakgrunn blir forklaringen om at noen rettighetshavere kun
 638 vil tillate streaming men ikke nedlasting meningsløs.</p>
 639
 640 <p>Anbefaler forresten å lese
 641 <a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/10/drm-is-toxic-to-culture/index.htm">http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/10/drm-is-toxic-to-culture/index.htm</a>
 642 om hva som ville være konsekvensen hvis digitale avspillingssperrer
 643 (DRM) fungerte.  Det gjør de naturligvis ikke teknisk - det er jo
 644 derfor de må ha totalitære juridiske beskyttelsesmekanismer på plass,
 645 men det er skremmende hva samfunnet tillater og NRK er med på å bygge
 646 opp under.</p>
 647 </blockquote></p>
 648
 649 <p>Ca. 20 minutter senere får jeg følgende epost fra Anders Hofseth i
 650 NRKBeta:</p>
 651
 652 <p><blockquote>
 653 <p>From: Anders Hofseth &lt;XXX@gmail.com>
 654 <br>To: "pere@hungry.com" &lt;pere@hungry.com>
 655 <br>Cc: Eirik Solheim &lt;XXX@gmail.com>, Jon Ståle Carlsen &lt;XXX@gmail.com>, Henrik Lied &lt;XXX@gmail.com>
 656 <br>Subject: Re: [NRKbeta] Kommentar: "Bakom Blindpassasjer: del 1"
 657 <br>Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:58:44 +0200</p>
 658
 659 <p>Hei Petter.
 660 <br>Det du forsøker dra igang er egentlig en interessant diskusjon,
 661 men om vi skal kjøre den i kommentarfeltet her, vil vi kunne bli bedt
 662 om å fjerne blindpassasjer fra nett- tv og det vil heller ikke bli
 663 særlig lett å klarere ut noe annet arkivmateriale på lang tid.</p>
 664
 665 <p>Dette er en situasjon NRKbeta ikke ønsker, så kommentaren er
 666 fjernet og den delen av diskusjonen er avsluttet på nrkbeta, vi antar
 667 konsekvensene vi beskriver ikke er noe du ønsker heller...</p>
 668
 669 <p>Med hilsen,
 670 <br>-anders</p>
 671
 672 <p>Ring meg om noe er uklart: 95XXXXXXX</p>
 673 </blockquote></p>
 674
 675 <p>Ble så fascinert over denne holdningen, at jeg forfattet og sendte
 676 over følgende svar.  I og med at debatten er fjernet fra NRK Betas
 677 kommentarfelt, så velger jeg å publisere her på bloggen min i stedet.
 678 Har fjernet epostadresser og telefonnummer til de involverte, for å
 679 unngå at de tiltrekker seg uønskede direkte kontaktforsøk.</p>
 680
 681 <p><blockquote>
 682 <p>From: Petter Reinholdtsen &lt;pere@hungry.com>
 683 <br>To: Anders Hofseth &lt;XXX@gmail.com>
 684 <br>Cc: Eirik Solheim &lt;XXX@gmail.com>,
 685 <br>        Jon Ståle Carlsen &lt;XXX@gmail.com>,
 686 <br>        Henrik Lied &lt;XXX@gmail.com>
 687 <br>Subject: Re: [NRKbeta] Kommentar: "Bakom Blindpassasjer: del 1"
 688 <br>Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:24:34 +0200</p>
 689
 690 <p>[Anders Hofseth]
 691 <br>> Hei Petter.</p>
 692
 693 <p>Hei.</p>
 694
 695 <p>> Det du forsøker dra igang er egentlig en interessant diskusjon, men
 696 <br>> om vi skal kjøre den i kommentarfeltet her, vil vi kunne bli bedt om
 697 <br>> å fjerne blindpassasjer fra nett- tv og det vil heller ikke bli
 698 <br>> særlig lett å klarere ut noe annet arkivmateriale på lang tid.</p>
 699
 700 <p>Godt å se at du er enig i at dette er en interessant diskusjon.  Den
 701 vil nok fortsette en stund til.  :)</p>
 702
 703 <p>Må innrømme at jeg synes det er merkelig å lese at dere i NRK med
 704 vitende og vilje ønsker å forlede rettighetshaverne for å kunne
 705 fortsette å legge ut arkivmateriale.</p>
 706
 707 <p>Kommentarer og diskusjoner i bloggene til NRK Beta påvirker jo ikke
 708 faktum, som er at streaming er det samme som nedlasting, og at innhold
 709 som er lagt ut på nett kan lagres lokalt for avspilling når en ønsker
 710 det.</p>
 711
 712 <p>Det du sier er jo at klarering av arkivmateriale for publisering på
 713 web krever at en holder faktum skjult fra debattfeltet på NRKBeta.
 714 Det er ikke et argument som holder vann. :)</p>
 715
 716 <p>> Dette er en situasjon NRKbeta ikke ønsker, så kommentaren er fjernet
 717 <br>> og den delen av diskusjonen er avsluttet på nrkbeta, vi antar
 718 <br>> konsekvensene vi beskriver ikke er noe du ønsker heller...</p>
 719
 720 <p>Personlig ønsker jeg at NRK skal slutte å stikke hodet i sanden og
 721 heller være åpne på hvordan virkeligheten fungerer, samt ta opp kampen
 722 mot de som vil låse kulturen inne.  Jeg synes det er en skam at NRK
 723 godtar å forlede publikum.  Ville heller at NRK krever at innhold som
 724 skal sendes skal være uten bruksbegresninger og kan publiseres i
 725 formater som heller ikke har bruksbegresninger (bruksbegresningene til
 726 H.264 burde få varselbjellene i NRK til å ringe).</p>
 727
 728 <p>At NRK er med på DRM-tåkeleggingen og at det kommer feilaktive
 729 påstander om at "streaming beskytter mot nedlasting" som bare er egnet
 730 til å bygge opp om en myte som er skadelig for samfunnet som helhet.</p>
 731
 732 <p>Anbefaler &lt;URL:<a href="http://webmink.com/2010/09/03/h-264-and-foss/">http://webmink.com/2010/09/03/h-264-and-foss/</a>> og en
 733 titt på
 734 &lt;URL: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html</a> >.
 735 for å se hva slags bruksbegresninger H.264 innebærer.</p>
 736
 737 <p>Hvis dette innebærer at NRK må være åpne med at arkivmaterialet ikke
 738 kan brukes før rettighetshaverene også innser at de er med på å skade
 739 samfunnets kultur og kollektive hukommelse, så får en i hvert fall
 740 synliggjort konsekvensene og antagelig mer flammer på en debatt som er
 741 langt på overtid.</p>
 742
 743 <p>> Ring meg om noe er uklart: XXX</p>
 744
 745 <p>Intet uklart, men ikke imponert over måten dere håndterer debatten på.
 746 Hadde du i stedet kommet med et tilsvar i kommentarfeltet der en
 747 gjorde det klart at blindpassasjer-blogpostingen ikke var riktig sted
 748 for videre diskusjon hadde dere i mine øyne kommet fra det med
 749 ryggraden på plass.</p>
 750
 751 <p>PS: Interessant å se at NRK-ansatte ikke bruker NRK-epostadresser.</p>
 752
 753 <p>Som en liten avslutning, her er noen litt morsomme innslag om temaet.
 754 &lt;URL: <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CopyingIsNotTheft">http://www.archive.org/details/CopyingIsNotTheft</a> > og
 755 &lt;URL: <a href="http://patentabsurdity.com/">http://patentabsurdity.com/</a> > hadde vært noe å kringkaste på
 756 NRK1. :)</p>
 757
 758 <p>Vennlig hilsen,
 759 <br>--
 760 <br>Petter Reinholdtsen</p>
 761
 762       </div>
 763       <div class="tags">
 764
 765
 766         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/digistan">digistan</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
 767
 768
 769       </div>
 770     </div>
 771     <div class="padding"></div>
 772
 773     <div class="entry">
 774       <div class="title">
 775         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norgeskartet_p__mange_vis___via_OpenStreetmap_org.html">Norgeskartet på mange vis - via OpenStreetmap.org</a>
 776       </div>
 777       <div class="date">
 778          1st November 2010
 779       </div>
 780       <div class="body">
 781         <p>Har oppdaget at mange ikke er klar over at OpenStreetmap.org er
 782 tilgjengelig i en rekke forskjellige formater.  Her er en liste med
 783 eksporter jeg kjenner til for Norge, for de som trenger et
 784 fribrukskart til sine tjenester:</p>
 785
 786 <p><ul>
 787
 788 <li>Cloudmade tilbyr OSM XML, Garmin Map Files, Osmosis country
 789 bounding polygon, Shapefile, Navit maps, GPX POI, TomTom POI og OSM
 790 XML feature extracts via
 791 <a href="http://downloads.cloudmade.com/europe/norway">sine
 792 nedlastingssider</a>.</li>
 793
 794 <li>Geofabric tilbyr
 795 <a href="http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/norway.osm.bz2">OSM
 796 XML</a>,
 797 <a href="http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/norway.osm.pbf">OSM
 798 protobuf binærformat</a> og
 799 <a href="http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/norway.shp.zip">ESRI
 800 Shapefile (EPSG:4326)</a> fra sine nedlastingssider.</li>
 801
 802 <li>Frikart.no tilbyr
 803 <a href="http://www.frikart.no/garmin/">Garmin-kart</a> i uike
 804 varianter for veibruk og turbruk sommer og vinter.</li>
 805
 806 </ul></p>
 807
 808 <p>Kartene oppdateres regelmessig, som oftest hver uke.  Det skulle
 809 dermed være noe for enhver smak.</p>
 810
 811       </div>
 812       <div class="tags">
 813
 814
 815         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
 816
 817
 818       </div>
 819     </div>
 820     <div class="padding"></div>
 821
 822     <div class="entry">
 823       <div class="title">
 824         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html">Why isn't Debian Edu using VLC?</a>
 825       </div>
 826       <div class="date">
 827         27th November 2010
 828       </div>
 829       <div class="body">
 830         <p>In the latest issue of Linux Journal, the readers choices were
 831 presented, and the winner among the multimedia player were VLC.
 832 Personally, I like VLC, and it is my player of choice when I first try
 833 to play a video file or stream.  Only if VLC fail will I drag out
 834 gmplayer to see if it can do better.  The reason is mostly the failure
 835 model and trust.  When VLC fail, it normally pop up a error message
 836 reporting the problem.  When mplayer fail, it normally segfault or
 837 just hangs.  The latter failure mode drain my trust in the program.<p>
 838
 839 <p>But even if VLC is my player of choice, we have choosen to use
 840 mplayer in <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian
 841 Edu/Skolelinux</a>.  The reason is simple.  We need a good browser
 842 plugin to play web videos seamlessly, and the VLC browser plugin is
 843 not very good.  For example, it lack in-line control buttons, so there
 844 is no way for the user to pause the video.  Also, when I
 845 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia">last
 846 tested the browser plugins</a> available in Debian, the VLC plugin
 847 failed on several video pages where mplayer based plugins worked.  If
 848 the browser plugin for VLC was as good as the gecko-mediaplayer
 849 package (which uses mplayer), we would switch.</P>
 850
 851 <p>While VLC is a good player, its user interface is slightly
 852 annoying.  The most annoying feature is its inconsistent use of
 853 keyboard shortcuts.  When the player is in full screen mode, its
 854 shortcuts are different from when it is playing the video in a window.
 855 For example, space only work as pause when in full screen mode.  I
 856 wish it had consisten shortcuts and that space also would work when in
 857 window mode.  Another nice shortcut in gmplayer is [enter] to restart
 858 the current video.  It is very nice when playing short videos from the
 859 web and want to restart it when new people arrive to have a look at
 860 what is going on.</p>
 861
 862       </div>
 863       <div class="tags">
 864
 865
 866         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
 867
 868
 869       </div>
 870     </div>
 871     <div class="padding"></div>
 872
 873     <div class="entry">
 874       <div class="title">
 875         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gnash_enteres_Google_Summer_of_Code_2011.html">Gnash enteres Google Summer of Code 2011</a>
 876       </div>
 877       <div class="date">
 878          6th April 2011
 879       </div>
 880       <div class="body">
 881         <p><a href="http://www.getgnash.org/">The Gnash project</a> is still
 882 the most promising solution for a Free Software Flash implementation.
 883 A few days ago the project
 884 <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnash-dev/2011-04/msg00011.html">announced</a>
 885 that it will participate in Google Summer of Code.  I hope many
 886 students apply, and that some of them succeed in getting AVM2 support
 887 into Gnash.</p>
 888
 889       </div>
 890       <div class="tags">
 891
 892
 893         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
 894
 895
 896       </div>
 897     </div>
 898     <div class="padding"></div>
 899
 900     <div class="entry">
 901       <div class="title">
 902         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_missing_in_the_Debian_desktop__or_why_my_parents_use_Kubuntu.html">What is missing in the Debian desktop, or why my parents use Kubuntu</a>
 903       </div>
 904       <div class="date">
 905         29th July 2011
 906       </div>
 907       <div class="body">
 908         <p>While at Debconf11, I have several times during discussions
 909 mentioned the issues I believe should be improved in Debian for its
 910 desktop to be useful for more people.  The use case for this is my
 911 parents, which are currently running Kubuntu which solve the
 912 issues.</p>
 913
 914 <p>I suspect these four missing features are not very hard to
 915 implement.  After all, they are present in Ubuntu, so if we wanted to
 916 do this in Debian we would have a source.</p>
 917
 918 <ol>
 919
 920 <li><strong>Simple GUI based upgrade of packages.</strong> When there
 921 are new packages available for upgrades, a icon in the KDE status bar
 922 indicate this, and clicking on it will activate the simple upgrade
 923 tool to handle it.  I have no problem guiding both of my parents
 924 through the process over the phone.  If a kernel reboot is required,
 925 this too is indicated by the status bars and the upgrade tool.  Last
 926 time I checked, nothing with the same features was working in KDE in
 927 Debian.</li>
 928
 929 <li><strong>Simple handling of missing Firefox browser
 930 plugins.</strong> When the browser encounter a MIME type it do not
 931 currently have a handler for, it will ask the user if the system
 932 should search for a package that would add support for this MIME type,
 933 and if the user say yes, the APT sources will be searched for packages
 934 advertising the MIME type in their control file (visible in the
 935 Packages file in the APT archive).  If one or more packages are found,
 936 it is a simple click of the mouse to add support for the missing mime
 937 type.  If the package require the user to accept some non-free
 938 license, this is explained to the user.  The entire process make it
 939 more clear to the user why something do not work in the browser, and
 940 make the chances higher for the user to blame the web page authors and
 941 not the browser for any missing features.</li>
 942
 943 <li><strong>Simple handling of missing multimedia codec/format
 944 handlers.</strong> When the media players encounter a format or codec
 945 it is not supporting, a dialog pop up asking the user if the system
 946 should search for a package that would add support for it.  This
 947 happen with things like MP3, Windows Media or H.264.  The selection
 948 and installation procedure is very similar to the Firefox browser
 949 plugin handling.  This is as far as I know implemented using a
 950 gstreamer hook.  The end result is that the user easily get access to
 951 the codecs that are present from the APT archives available, while
 952 explaining more on why a given format is unsupported by Ubuntu.</li>
 953
 954 <li><strong>Better browser handling of some MIME types.</strong> When
 955 displaying a text/plain file in my Debian browser, it will propose to
 956 start emacs to show it.  If I remember correctly, when doing the same
 957 in Kunbutu it show the file as a text file in the browser.  At least I
 958 know Opera will show text files within the browser.  I much prefer the
 959 latter behaviour.</li>
 960
 961 </ol>
 962
 963 <p>There are other nice features as well, like the simplified suite
 964 upgrader, but given that I am the one mostly doing the dist-upgrade,
 965 it do not matter much.</p>
 966
 967 <p>I really hope we could get these features in place for the next
 968 Debian release.  It would require the coordinated effort of several
 969 maintainers, but would make the end user experience a lot better.</p>
 970
 971       </div>
 972       <div class="tags">
 973
 974
 975         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
 976
 977
 978       </div>
 979     </div>
 980     <div class="padding"></div>
 981
 982     <div class="entry">
 983       <div class="title">
 984         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK.html">Hvordan enkelt laste ned filmer fra NRK</a>
 985       </div>
 986       <div class="date">
 987          5th November 2011
 988       </div>
 989       <div class="body">
 990         <p>Ofte har jeg lyst til å laste ned et innslag fra NRKs nettsted for
 991 å se det senere når jeg ikke er på nett, eller for å ha det
 992 tilgjengelig når jeg en gang i fremtiden ønsker å referere til
 993 innslaget selv om NRK har fjernet det fra sine nettsider.  I dag fant
 994 jeg et lite script som fikser jobben.</p>
 995
 996 <p>Scriptet er laget av Jan Henning Thorsen og tilgjengelig fra
 997 <a href="http://jhthorsen.github.com/snippets/nrk-downloader/">github</a>,
 998 og gjør det veldig enkelt å laste ned.  Kjør <tt>nrk-downloader.sh
 999 http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/582810</tt> for å hente ned et enkelt
1000 innslag eller <tt>nrk-downloader.sh
1001 http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/kategori/3521</tt> for å laste ned alle
1002 episodene i en serie.</p>
1003
1004 <p>Det er ikke rakettforskning å laste ned NRK-"strømmer", og
1005 tidligere gjorde jeg dette manuelt med mplayer.  Scriptet til
1006 Hr. Thorsen gjør det raskere og enklere for meg, men jeg vil ikke si
1007 at det er en revolusjonerende løsning.  Jeg mener jo fortsatt at
1008 påstanden fra NRKs ansatte om at det er
1009 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Best___ikke_fortelle_noen_at_streaming_er_nedlasting___.html">vesensforskjellig
1010 å legge tilgjengelig for nedlasting og for streaming</a> er
1011 meningsløs.</p>
1012
1013       </div>
1014       <div class="tags">
1015
1016
1017         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
1018
1019
1020       </div>
1021     </div>
1022     <div class="padding"></div>
1023
1024     <div class="entry">
1025       <div class="title">
1026         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Changing_the_default_Iceweasel_start_page_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html">Changing the default Iceweasel start page in Debian Edu/Squeeze</a>
1027       </div>
1028       <div class="date">
1029         10th January 2012
1030       </div>
1031       <div class="body">
1032         <p>In the Squeeze version of
1033 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a> soon
1034 to be released, users of the system will get their default browser
1035 start page set from LDAP, allowing the system administrator to point
1036 all users to the school web page by updating one setting in LDAP.  In
1037 addition to setting the default start page when a machine boots, users
1038 are shown the same page as a welcome page when they log in for the
1039 first time.</p>
1040
1041 <p>The LDAP object dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no have an attribute
1042 labeledURI with "http://www/ LDAP for Debian Edu/Skolelinux" as the
1043 default content.  By changing this value to another URL, all users get
1044 to see the page behind this new URL.</p>
1045
1046 <p>An easy way to update it is by using the ldapvi tool.  It can be
1047 called as "<tt>ldapvi -ZD '(cn=admin)'</tt>' to update LDAP with the
1048 new setting.</p>
1049
1050 <p>We have written the code to adjust the default start page and show
1051 the welcome page, and I wonder if there is an easier way to do this
1052 from within Iceweasel instead.</p>
1053
1054       </div>
1055       <div class="tags">
1056
1057
1058         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
1059
1060
1061       </div>
1062     </div>
1063     <div class="padding"></div>
1064
1065     <div class="entry">
1066       <div class="title">
1067         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/HTC_One_X___Your_video___What_do_you_mean_.html">HTC One X - Your video?  What do you mean?</a>
1068       </div>
1069       <div class="date">
1070         26th April 2012
1071       </div>
1072       <div class="body">
1073         <p>In <a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article243690.ece">an
1074 article today</a> published by Computerworld Norway, the photographer
1075 <a href="http://www.urke.com/eirik/">Eirik Helland Urke</a> reports
1076 that the video editor application included with
1077 <a href="http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one-x/#specs">HTC One
1078 X</a> have some quite surprising terms of use.  The article is mostly
1079 based on the twitter message from mister Urke, stating:
1080
1081 <p><blockquote>
1082 "<a href="http://twitter.com/urke/status/194062269724897280">Drøy
1083 brukeravtale: HTC kan bruke MINE redigerte videoer kommersielt. Selv
1084 kan jeg KUN bruke dem privat.</a>"
1085 </blockquote></p>
1086
1087 <p>I quickly translated it to this English message:</p>
1088
1089 <p><blockquote>
1090 "Arrogant user agreement: HTC can use MY edited videos
1091 commercially.  Although I can ONLY use them privately."
1092 </blockquote></p>
1093
1094 <p>I've been unable to find the text of the license term myself, but
1095 suspect it is a variation of the MPEG-LA terms I
1096 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html">discovered
1097 with my Canon IXUS 130</a>.  The HTC One X specification specifies that
1098 the recording format of the phone is .amr for audio and .mp3 for
1099 video.  AMR is
1100 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate_audio_codec#Licensing_and_patent_issues">Adaptive
1101 Multi-Rate audio codec</a> with patents which according to the
1102 Wikipedia article require an license agreement with
1103 <a href="http://www.voiceage.com/">VoiceAge</a>.  MP4 is
1104 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Patent_licensing">MPEG4 with
1105 H.264</a>, which according to Wikipedia require a licence agreement
1106 with <a href="http://www.mpegla.com/">MPEG-LA</a>.</p>
1107
1108 <p>I know why I prefer
1109 <a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">free and open
1110 standards</a> also for video.</p>
1111
1112       </div>
1113       <div class="tags">
1114
1115
1116         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/digistan">digistan</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
1117
1118
1119       </div>
1120     </div>
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1128 <h2>Archive</h2>
1129 <ul>
1130
1131 <li>2012
1132 <ul>
1133
1134 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
1135
1136 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
1137
1138 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (17)</a></li>
1139
1140 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/04/">April (12)</a></li>
1141
1142 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/05/">May (10)</a></li>
1143
1144 </ul></li>
1145
1146 <li>2011
1147 <ul>
1148
1149 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
1150
1151 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/02/">February (6)</a></li>
1152
1153 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/03/">March (6)</a></li>
1154
1155 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/04/">April (7)</a></li>
1156
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1160
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1162
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1164
1165 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/09/">September (4)</a></li>
1166
1167 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/10/">October (2)</a></li>
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1169 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/11/">November (3)</a></li>
1170
1171 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
1172
1173 </ul></li>
1174
1175 <li>2010
1176 <ul>
1177
1178 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
1179
1180 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
1181
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1189
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1193
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1195
1196 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
1197
1198 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
1199
1200 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
1201
1202 </ul></li>
1203
1204 <li>2009
1205 <ul>
1206
1207 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
1208
1209 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
1210
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1218
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1220
1221 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
1222
1223 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
1224
1225 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
1226
1227 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
1228
1229 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
1230
1231 </ul></li>
1232
1233 <li>2008
1234 <ul>
1235
1236 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
1237
1238 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
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1240 </ul></li>
1241
1242 </ul>
1243
1244
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1246 <h2>Tags</h2>
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1301  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot (4)</a></li>
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1303  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rss">rss (1)</a></li>
1304
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1306
1307  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/scraperwiki">scraperwiki (1)</a></li>
1308
1309  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (23)</a></li>
1310
1311  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary (4)</a></li>
1312
1313  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (29)</a></li>
1314
1315  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (1)</a></li>
1316
1317  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (4)</a></li>
1318
1319  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (9)</a></li>
1320
1321  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg (6)</a></li>
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