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  14      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Isenkram_with_PackageKit_support___new_version_0_23_available_in_Debian_unstable.html">Isenkram with PackageKit support - new version 0.23 available in Debian unstable</a></div>
  24       <div class="date">25th May 2016</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p><a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/isenkram">The isenkram
  26 system</a> is a user-focused solution in Debian for handling hardware
  27 related packages.  The idea is to have a database of mappings between
  28 hardware and packages, and pop up a dialog suggesting for the user to
  29 install the packages to use a given hardware dongle.  Some use cases
  30 are when you insert a Yubikey, it proposes to install the software
  31 needed to control it; when you insert a braille reader list it
  32 proposes to install the packages needed to send text to the reader;
  33 and when you insert a ColorHug screen calibrator it suggests to
  34 install the driver for it.  The system work well, and even have a few
  35 command line tools to install firmware packages and packages for the
  36 hardware already in the machine (as opposed to hotpluggable hardware).</p>
  37
  38 <p>The system was initially written using aptdaemon, because I found
  39 good documentation and example code on how to use it.  But aptdaemon
  40 is going away and is generally being replaced by
  41 <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/PackageKit/">PackageKit</a>,
  42 so Isenkram needed a rewrite.  And today, thanks to the great patch
  43 from my college Sunil Mohan Adapa in the FreedomBox project, the
  44 rewrite finally took place.  I've just uploaded a new version of
  45 Isenkram into Debian Unstable with the patch included, and the default
  46 for the background daemon is now to use PackageKit.  To check it out,
  47 install the <tt>isenkram</tt> package and insert some hardware dongle
  48 and see if it is recognised.</p>
  49
  50 <p>If you want to know what kind of packages isenkram would propose for
  51 the machine it is running on, you can check out the isenkram-lookup
  52 program.  This is what it look like on a Thinkpad X230:</p>
  53
  54 <p><blockquote><pre>
  55 % isenkram-lookup
  56 bluez
  57 cheese
  58 fprintd
  59 fprintd-demo
  60 gkrellm-thinkbat
  61 hdapsd
  62 libpam-fprintd
  63 pidgin-blinklight
  64 thinkfan
  65 tleds
  66 tp-smapi-dkms
  67 tp-smapi-source
  68 tpb
  69 %p
  70 </pre></blockquote></p>
  71
  72 <p>The hardware mappings come from several places.  The preferred way
  73 is for packages to announce their hardware support using
  74 <a href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/">the
  75 cross distribution appstream system</a>.
  76 See
  77 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram/">previous
  78 blog posts about isenkram</a> to learn how to do that.</p>
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  83         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/isenkram">isenkram</a>.
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  90     <div class="entry">
  91       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Discharge_rate_estimate_in_new_battery_statistics_collector_for_Debian.html">Discharge rate estimate in new battery statistics collector for Debian</a></div>
  92       <div class="date">23rd May 2016</div>
  93       <div class="body"><p>Yesterday I updated the
  94 <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats">battery-stats
  95 package in Debian</a> with a few patches sent to me by skilled and
  96 enterprising users.  There were some nice user and visible changes.
  97 First of all, both desktop menu entries now work.  A design flaw in
  98 one of the script made the history graph fail to show up (its PNG was
  99 dumped in ~/.xsession-errors) if no controlling TTY was available.
 100 The script worked when called from the command line, but not when
 101 called from the desktop menu.  I changed this to look for a DISPLAY
 102 variable or a TTY before deciding where to draw the graph, and now the
 103 graph window pop up as expected.</p>
 104
 105 <p>The next new feature is a discharge rate estimator in one of the
 106 graphs (the one showing the last few hours).  New is also the user of
 107 colours showing charging in blue and discharge in red.  The percentages
 108 of this graph is relative to last full charge, not battery design
 109 capacity.</p>
 110
 111 <p align="center"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-05-23-battery-stats-rate.png"/></p>
 112
 113 <p>The other graph show the entire history of the collected battery
 114 statistics, comparing it to the design capacity of the battery to
 115 visualise how the battery life time get shorter over time.  The red
 116 line in this graph is what the previous graph considers 100 percent:
 117
 118 <p align="center"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-05-23-battery-stats-history.png"/></p>
 119
 120 <p>In this graph you can see that I only charge the battery to 80
 121 percent of last full capacity, and how the capacity of the battery is
 122 shrinking. :(</p>
 123
 124 <p>The last new feature is in the collector, which now will handle
 125 more hardware models.  On some hardware, Linux power supply
 126 information is stored in /sys/class/power_supply/ACAD/, while the
 127 collector previously only looked in /sys/class/power_supply/AC/.  Now
 128 both are checked to figure if there is power connected to the
 129 machine.</p>
 130
 131 <p>If you are interested in how your laptop battery is doing, please
 132 check out the
 133 <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats">battery-stats</a>
 134 in Debian unstable, or rebuild it on Jessie to get it working on
 135 Debian stable. :) The upstream source is available from <a
 136 href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/battery-stats">github</a>.
 137 Patches are very welcome.</p>
 138
 139 <p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 140 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 141 <b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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 146         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>.
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 154       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_edition_of_Lawrence_Lessigs_book_Cultura_Libre_on_Amazon_and_Barnes___Noble.html">French edition of Lawrence Lessigs book Cultura Libre on Amazon and Barnes & Noble</a></div>
 155       <div class="date">21st May 2016</div>
 156       <div class="body"><p>A few weeks ago the French paperback edition of Lawrence Lessigs
 157 2004 book Cultura Libre was published.  Today I noticed that the book
 158 is now available from book stores.  You can now buy it from
 159 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Libre-French-Lawrence-Lessig/dp/8269018260">Amazon</a>
 160 ($19.99),
 161 <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/culture-libre-lawrence-lessig/1123776705">Barnes
 162 & Noble</a> ($?) and as always from
 163 <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html">Lulu.com</a>
 164 ($19.99).  The revenue is donated to the Creative Commons project.  If
 165 you buy from Lulu.com, they currently get $10.59, while if you buy
 166 from one of the book stores most of the revenue go to the book store
 167 and the Creative Commons project get much (not sure how much
 168 less).</p>
 169
 170 <p>I was a bit surprised to discover that there is a kindle edition
 171 sold by Amazon Digital Services LLC on Amazon.  Not quite sure how
 172 that edition was created, but if you want to download a electronic
 173 edition (PDF, EPUB, Mobi) generated from the same files used to create
 174 the paperback edition, they are
 175 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">available
 176 from github</a>.</p>
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 181         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture</a>.
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 189       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_want_the_courts_to_be_involved_before_the_police_can_hijack_a_news_site_DNS_domain___domstolkontroll_.html">I want the courts to be involved before the police can hijack a news site DNS domain (#domstolkontroll)</a></div>
 190       <div class="date">19th May 2016</div>
 191       <div class="body"><p>I just donated to the
 192 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml">NUUG defence
 193 "fond"</a> to fund the effort in Norway to get the seizure of the news
 194 site popcorn-time.no tested in court.  I hope everyone that agree with
 195 me will do the same.</p>
 196
 197 <p>Would you be worried if you knew the police in your country could
 198 hijack DNS domains of news sites covering free software system without
 199 talking to a judge first?  I am.  What if the free software system
 200 combined search engine lookups, bittorrent downloads and video playout
 201 and was called Popcorn Time?  Would that affect your view?  It still
 202 make me worried.</p>
 203
 204 <p>In March 2016, the Norwegian police seized (as in forced NORID to
 205 change the IP address pointed to by it to one controlled by the
 206 police) the DNS domain popcorn-time.no, without any supervision from
 207 the courts.  I did not know about the web site back then, and assumed
 208 the courts had been involved, and was very surprised when I discovered
 209 that the police had hijacked the DNS domain without asking a judge for
 210 permission first.  I was even more surprised when I had a look at
 211 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://popcorn-time.no">the web
 212 site content on the Internet Archive</A>, and only found news coverage
 213 about Popcorn Time, not any material published without the right
 214 holders permissions.</p>
 215
 216 <p>The seizure was widely covered in the Norwegian press (see for
 217 example <a href="http://www.hegnar.no/Nyheter/Naeringsliv/2016/03/Popcorn-time.no-beslaglagt-av-OEkokrim">Hegnar Online</a> and
 218 <a href="http://itavisen.no/2016/03/08/okokrim-har-beslaglagt-popcorn-time-no/">ITavisen<a/>
 219 and
 220 <a href="http://www.nrk.no/kultur/okokrim-gar-til-aksjon-mot-popcorn-time-1.12842452">NRK</a>),
 221 at first due to the press release sent out by Økokrim, but then based
 222 on
 223 <a href="http://blogg.torvund.net/2016/03/09/okokrims-beslag-i-domenet-popcorn-time-no/">protests
 224 from the law professor Olav Torvund</a> and
 225 <a href="http://www.klassekampen.no/article/20160311/ARTICLE/160319995">lawyer
 226 Jon Wessel-Aas</a>.  It even got some
 227 <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/norwegian-authorities-sued-over-popcorn-time-domain-seizure-160418/">coverage
 228 on TorrentFreak</a>.</p>
 229
 230 <p>I
 231 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html">
 232 wrote about the case a month ago</a>, when the
 233 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Norwegian Unix User Group</a> (NUUG),
 234 where I am an active member, decided to ask the courts to test this seizure.
 235 The request was denied, but NUUG and its co-requestor EFN have not
 236 given up, and now they are rallying for support to get the seizure
 237 legally challenged.  They accept both bank and Bitcoin transfer for
 238 those that want to support the request.</p>
 239
 240 <p>If you as me believe news sites about free software should not be
 241 censored, even if the free software have both legal and illegal
 242 applications, and that DNS hijacking should be tested by the courts, I
 243 suggest you <a href="http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml">show
 244 your support by donating to NUUG</a>.</a>
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 249         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/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>.
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 257       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_with_ZFS_on_Linux_included.html">Debian now with ZFS on Linux included</a></div>
 258       <div class="date">12th May 2016</div>
 259       <div class="body"><p>Today, after many years of hard work from many people,
 260 <a href="http://zfsonlinux.org/">ZFS for Linux</a> finally entered
 261 Debian.  The package status can be seen on
 262 <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/zfs-linux">the package tracker
 263 for zfs-linux</a>.  and
 264 <a href="https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-zfsonlinux-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">the
 265 team status page</a>. If you want to help out, please join us.
 266 <a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-zfsonlinux/zfs.git">The
 267 source code</a> is available via git on Alioth.  It would also be
 268 great if you could help out with
 269 <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dkms">the dkms package</a>, as
 270 it is an important piece of the puzzle to get ZFS working.</p>
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 275         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>.
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 283       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html">What is the best multimedia player in Debian?</a></div>
 284       <div class="date"> 8th May 2016</div>
 285       <div class="body"><p><strong>Where I set out to figure out which multimedia player in
 286 Debian claim support for most file formats.</strong></p>
 287
 288 <p>A few years ago, I had a look at the media support for Browser
 289 plugins in Debian, to get an idea which plugins to include in Debian
 290 Edu.  I created a script to extract the set of supported MIME types
 291 for each plugin, and used this to find out which multimedia browser
 292 plugin supported most file formats / media types.
 293 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia">The
 294 result</a> can still be seen on the Debian wiki, even though it have
 295 not been updated for a while.  But browser plugins are less relevant
 296 these days, so I thought it was time to look at standalone
 297 players.</p>
 298
 299 <p>A few days ago I was tired of VLC not being listed as a viable
 300 player when I wanted to play videos from the Norwegian National
 301 Broadcasting Company, and decided to investigate why.  The cause is a
 302 <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/822245">missing MIME type in the VLC
 303 desktop file</a>.  In the process I wrote a script to compare the set
 304 of MIME types announced in the desktop file and the browser plugin,
 305 only to discover that there is quite a large difference between the
 306 two for VLC.  This discovery made me dig up the script I used to
 307 compare browser plugins, and adjust it to compare desktop files
 308 instead, to try to figure out which multimedia player in Debian
 309 support most file formats.</p>
 310
 311 <p>The result can be seen on the Debian Wiki, as
 312 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport">a
 313 table listing all MIME types supported by one of the packages included
 314 in the table</a>, with the package supporting most MIME types being
 315 listed first in the table.</p>
 316
 317 </p>The best multimedia player in Debian?  It is totem, followed by
 318 parole, kplayer, mpv, vlc, smplayer mplayer-gui gnome-mpv and
 319 kmplayer.  Time for the other players to update their announced MIME
 320 support?</p>
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 325         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>.
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 333       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Pyra___handheld_computer_with_Debian_preinstalled.html">The Pyra - handheld computer with Debian preinstalled</a></div>
 334       <div class="date"> 4th May 2016</div>
 335       <div class="body">A friend of mine made me aware of
 336 <a href="https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/">The Pyra</a>, a
 337 handheld computer which will be delivered with Debian preinstalled.  I
 338 would love to get one of those for my birthday. :)</p>
 339
 340 <p>The machine is a complete ARM-based PC with micro HDMI, SATA, USB
 341 plugs and many others connectors, and include a full keyboard and a 5"
 342 LCD touch screen.  The 6000mAh battery is claimed to provide a whole
 343 day of battery life time, but I have not seen any independent tests
 344 confirming this.  The vendor is still collecting preorders, and the
 345 last I heard last night was that 22 more orders were needed before
 346 production started.</p>
 347
 348 <p>As far as I know, this is the first handheld preinstalled with
 349 Debian.  Please let me know if you know of any others.  Is it the
 350 first computer being sold with Debian preinstalled?</p>
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 355         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>.
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 363       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html">NUUG contests Norwegian police DNS seizure of popcorn-time.no</a></div>
 364       <div class="date">18th April 2016</div>
 365       <div class="body"><p>It is days like today I am really happy to be a member of
 366 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">the Norwegian Unix User group</a>, a
 367 member association for those of us believing in free software, open
 368 standards and unix-like operating systems.  NUUG announced today it
 369 will
 370 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/news/Pressemelding__NUUG_og_EFN_begj_rer_rettslig_pr_ving_for_DNS_domenebeslag_av_popcorn_time_no.shtml">try
 371 to bring the seizure of the DNS domain popcorn-time.no as
 372 unlawful</a>, to stand up for the principle that writing about a
 373 controversial topic is not infringing copyrights, and censuring web
 374 pages by hijacking DNS domain should be decided by the courts, not the
 375 police.  The DNS domain was seized by the Norwegian National Authority
 376 for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime
 377 a month ago.  I hope this bring more paying members to NUUG to give
 378 the association the financial muscle needed to bring this case as far
 379 as it must go to stop this kind of DNS hijacking.</p>
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 384         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/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>.
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 392       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_utgave__v2_2__av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen_gitt_ut.html">Ny utgave (v2.2) av den frie norske stavekontrollen gitt ut</a></div>
 393       <div class="date">15th April 2016</div>
 394       <div class="body"><p>I dag tok jeg mot til meg og pakket sammen en ny versjon av den
 395 frie norske stavekontrollen, ca. tre og et halvt år etter forrige
 396 gang.  Resultatet kan lastes ned fra
 397 <a href="http://no.speling.org/">no.speling.org-prosjeksiden</a>, både
 398 som kildekodepakke og som "pack"-fil som kanskje fortsatt kan brukes
 399 av OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice.  Byggesystemet trenger oppussing, men i
 400 denne omgang hadde jeg bare tid til å fikse byggefeil forårsaket av
 401 endringer i GNU grep.  De øvrige endringene var gjort tidligere i
 402 påvente av en ny utgave.</p>
 403
 404 <p><strong>Her er det som er nytt (fra NEWS-fila i
 405 kildekodepakken):</strong></p>
 406
 407 <p>Release 2.2 (2016-04-15)</p>
 408
 409 <ul>
 410
 411  <li>Rewrite how scripts/speling2words handle tripple consonants, to
 412    avoid importing duplicate words from no.speling.org, and getting
 413    rid of the existing duplicates in norsk.words.</li>
 414  <li>Remove duplicate entries with tripple consonants from norsk.words.</li>
 415  <li>Update frequency for entries in norsk.words based on
 416    <URL:http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/nta/ordlistf.zip> (ran 'make
 417    freq-update').</li>
 418  <li>Correct nn ispell build, avoid crash in munchlist causing lots of
 419    words to fall out of the database.</li>
 420  <li>Use grep -a to convince grep it is working on text files, to work
 421    with newer grep versions.</li>
 422
 423  <li>Remove some words disputed in the no.speling.org review process:
 424    <ul>
 425     <li>apparent (nb)</li>
 426     <li>likke (nb)</li>
 427     <li>ugjest, ugjesten, ugjestens (nb)</li>
 428  </ul></li>
 429
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 435         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll</a>.
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 443       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_F__Stone___an_inspiration_for_us_all.html">I.F. Stone - an inspiration for us all</a></div>
 444       <div class="date">13th April 2016</div>
 445       <div class="body"><p>I first got to know I.F. Stone when I came across an article by Jon
 446 Schwarz on The Intercept
 447 <a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/05/07/new-documentary-legacy-f-stone/">about
 448 his extraordinary contribution to investigative journalism in
 449 USA</a>. The article is about a new documentary in two parts
 450 (<a href="https://vimeo.com/123974841">part one is 12 minutes</a> and
 451 <a href="https://vimeo.com/123974842">part two is 30 minutes</a>), and
 452 I found both truly fascinating.  It is amazing what he was able to
 453 find by digging up public sources and government papers.  He
 454 documented lots of government abuse and cover ups, and I find
 455 <a href="http://www.ifstone.org/weekly.php">his weekly news letters</a>
 456 inspiring to read even today.</p>
 457
 458 <p><blockquote>
 459 All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
 460 <br>- I. F. Stone
 461 </blockquote></p>
 462
 463 <p>His starting point was that reporters should not assume governments
 464 and corporations are telling the truth, but verify all their claims as
 465 much as possible.  I wonder how many Norwegian reporters can be said
 466 to follow the principles of I. F. Stone.  They are definitely in short
 467 supply.  If you, like me half a year ago, have never heard of him,
 468 check him out.</p>
 469 </div>
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 485 <h2>Archive</h2>
 486 <ul>
 487
 488 <li>2016
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 491 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2016/01/">January (3)</a></li>
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 532 <li>2014
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 565
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 593 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
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 643
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 672
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 674
 675 </ul></li>
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 677 <li>2009
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 681
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 703
 704 </ul></li>
 705
 706 <li>2008
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