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                <title>Petter Reinholdtsen</title>
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                <title>French edition of Lawrence Lessigs book Cultura Libre on Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2016 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;A few weeks ago the French paperback edition of Lawrence Lessigs
2004 book Cultura Libre was published.  Today I noticed that the book
is now available from book stores.  You can now buy it from
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Libre-French-Lawrence-Lessig/dp/8269018260&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;
($19.99),
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/culture-libre-lawrence-lessig/1123776705&quot;&gt;Barnes
&amp; Noble&lt;/a&gt; ($?) and as always from
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html&quot;&gt;Lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;
($19.99).  The revenue is donated to the Creative Commons project.  If
you buy from Lulu.com, they currently get $10.59, while if you buy
from one of the book stores most of the revenue go to the book store
and the Creative Commons project get much (not sure how much
less).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I was a bit surprised to discover that there is a kindle edition
sold by Amazon Digital Services LLC on Amazon.  Not quite sure how
that edition was created, but if you want to download a electronic
edition (PDF, EPUB, Mobi) generated from the same files used to create
the paperback edition, they are
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;available
from github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>I want the courts to be involved before the police can hijack a news site DNS domain (#domstolkontroll)</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;I just donated to the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml&quot;&gt;NUUG defence
&quot;fond&quot;&lt;/a&gt; to fund the effort in Norway to get the seizure of the news
site popcorn-time.no tested in court.  I hope everyone that agree with
me will do the same.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Would you be worried if you knew the police in your country could
hijack DNS domains of news sites covering free software system without
talking to a judge first?  I am.  What if the free software system
combined search engine lookups, bittorrent downloads and video playout
and was called Popcorn Time?  Would that affect your view?  It still
make me worried.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In March 2016, the Norwegian police seized (as in forced NORID to
change the IP address pointed to by it to one controlled by the
police) the DNS domain popcorn-time.no, without any supervision from
the courts.  I did not know about the web site back then, and assumed
the courts had been involved, and was very surprised when I discovered
that the police had hijacked the DNS domain without asking a judge for
permission first.  I was even more surprised when I had a look at
&lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://popcorn-time.no&quot;&gt;the web
site content on the Internet Archive&lt;/A&gt;, and only found news coverage
about Popcorn Time, not any material published without the right
holders permissions.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The seizure was widely covered in the Norwegian press (see for
example &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hegnar.no/Nyheter/Naeringsliv/2016/03/Popcorn-time.no-beslaglagt-av-OEkokrim&quot;&gt;Hegnar Online&lt;/a&gt; and
&lt;a href=&quot;http://itavisen.no/2016/03/08/okokrim-har-beslaglagt-popcorn-time-no/&quot;&gt;ITavisen&lt;a/&gt;
and
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nrk.no/kultur/okokrim-gar-til-aksjon-mot-popcorn-time-1.12842452&quot;&gt;NRK&lt;/a&gt;),
at first due to the press release sent out by Økokrim, but then based
on
&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogg.torvund.net/2016/03/09/okokrims-beslag-i-domenet-popcorn-time-no/&quot;&gt;protests
from the law professor Olav Torvund&lt;/a&gt; and
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.klassekampen.no/article/20160311/ARTICLE/160319995&quot;&gt;lawyer
Jon Wessel-Aas&lt;/a&gt;.  It even got some
&lt;a href=&quot;https://torrentfreak.com/norwegian-authorities-sued-over-popcorn-time-domain-seizure-160418/&quot;&gt;coverage
on TorrentFreak&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html&quot;&gt;
wrote about the case a month ago&lt;/a&gt;, when the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;Norwegian Unix User Group&lt;/a&gt; (NUUG),
where I am an active member, decided to ask the courts to test this seizure.
The request was denied, but NUUG and its co-requestor EFN have not
given up, and now they are rallying for support to get the seizure
legally challenged.  They accept both bank and Bitcoin transfer for
those that want to support the request.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you as me believe news sites about free software should not be
censored, even if the free software have both legal and illegal
applications, and that DNS hijacking should be tested by the courts, I
suggest you &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml&quot;&gt;show
your support by donating to NUUG&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;
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                <title>Debian now with ZFS on Linux included</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2016 07:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Today, after many years of hard work from many people,
&lt;a href=&quot;http://zfsonlinux.org/&quot;&gt;ZFS for Linux&lt;/a&gt; finally entered
Debian.  The package status can be seen on
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/zfs-linux&quot;&gt;the package tracker
for zfs-linux&lt;/a&gt;.  and
&lt;a href=&quot;https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-zfsonlinux-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org&quot;&gt;the
team status page&lt;/a&gt;. If you want to help out, please join us.
&lt;a href=&quot;http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-zfsonlinux/zfs.git&quot;&gt;The
source code&lt;/a&gt; is available via git on Alioth.  It would also be
great if you could help out with
&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dkms&quot;&gt;the dkms package&lt;/a&gt;, as
it is an important piece of the puzzle to get ZFS working.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>What is the best multimedia player in Debian?</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2016 09:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where I set out to figure out which multimedia player in
Debian claim support for most file formats.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A few years ago, I had a look at the media support for Browser
plugins in Debian, to get an idea which plugins to include in Debian
Edu.  I created a script to extract the set of supported MIME types
for each plugin, and used this to find out which multimedia browser
plugin supported most file formats / media types.
&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia&quot;&gt;The
result&lt;/a&gt; can still be seen on the Debian wiki, even though it have
not been updated for a while.  But browser plugins are less relevant
these days, so I thought it was time to look at standalone
players.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I was tired of VLC not being listed as a viable
player when I wanted to play videos from the Norwegian National
Broadcasting Company, and decided to investigate why.  The cause is a
&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/822245&quot;&gt;missing MIME type in the VLC
desktop file&lt;/a&gt;.  In the process I wrote a script to compare the set
of MIME types announced in the desktop file and the browser plugin,
only to discover that there is quite a large difference between the
two for VLC.  This discovery made me dig up the script I used to
compare browser plugins, and adjust it to compare desktop files
instead, to try to figure out which multimedia player in Debian
support most file formats.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The result can be seen on the Debian Wiki, as
&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport&quot;&gt;a
table listing all MIME types supported by one of the packages included
in the table&lt;/a&gt;, with the package supporting most MIME types being
listed first in the table.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;/p&gt;The best multimedia player in Debian?  It is totem, followed by
parole, kplayer, mpv, vlc, smplayer mplayer-gui gnome-mpv and
kmplayer.  Time for the other players to update their announced MIME
support?&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>The Pyra - handheld computer with Debian preinstalled</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2016 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>A friend of mine made me aware of
&lt;a href=&quot;https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/&quot;&gt;The Pyra&lt;/a&gt;, a
handheld computer which will be delivered with Debian preinstalled.  I
would love to get one of those for my birthday. :)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The machine is a complete ARM-based PC with micro HDMI, SATA, USB
plugs and many others connectors, and include a full keyboard and a 5&quot;
LCD touch screen.  The 6000mAh battery is claimed to provide a whole
day of battery life time, but I have not seen any independent tests
confirming this.  The vendor is still collecting preorders, and the
last I heard last night was that 22 more orders were needed before
production started.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, this is the first handheld preinstalled with
Debian.  Please let me know if you know of any others.  Is it the
first computer being sold with Debian preinstalled?&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>NUUG contests Norwegian police DNS seizure of popcorn-time.no</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;It is days like today I am really happy to be a member of
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;the Norwegian Unix User group&lt;/a&gt;, a
member association for those of us believing in free software, open
standards and unix-like operating systems.  NUUG announced today it
will
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/news/Pressemelding__NUUG_og_EFN_begj_rer_rettslig_pr_ving_for_DNS_domenebeslag_av_popcorn_time_no.shtml&quot;&gt;try
to bring the seizure of the DNS domain popcorn-time.no as
unlawful&lt;/a&gt;, to stand up for the principle that writing about a
controversial topic is not infringing copyrights, and censuring web
pages by hijacking DNS domain should be decided by the courts, not the
police.  The DNS domain was seized by the Norwegian National Authority
for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime
a month ago.  I hope this bring more paying members to NUUG to give
the association the financial muscle needed to bring this case as far
as it must go to stop this kind of DNS hijacking.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Ny utgave (v2.2) av den frie norske stavekontrollen gitt ut</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_utgave__v2_2__av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen_gitt_ut.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2016 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;I dag tok jeg mot til meg og pakket sammen en ny versjon av den
frie norske stavekontrollen, ca. tre og et halvt år etter forrige
gang.  Resultatet kan lastes ned fra
&lt;a href=&quot;http://no.speling.org/&quot;&gt;no.speling.org-prosjeksiden&lt;/a&gt;, både
som kildekodepakke og som &quot;pack&quot;-fil som kanskje fortsatt kan brukes
av OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice.  Byggesystemet trenger oppussing, men i
denne omgang hadde jeg bare tid til å fikse byggefeil forårsaket av
endringer i GNU grep.  De øvrige endringene var gjort tidligere i
påvente av en ny utgave.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Her er det som er nytt (fra NEWS-fila i
kildekodepakken):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Release 2.2 (2016-04-15)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;

 &lt;li&gt;Rewrite how scripts/speling2words handle tripple consonants, to
   avoid importing duplicate words from no.speling.org, and getting
   rid of the existing duplicates in norsk.words.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;Remove duplicate entries with tripple consonants from norsk.words.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;Update frequency for entries in norsk.words based on
   &lt;URL:http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/nta/ordlistf.zip&gt; (ran &#39;make
   freq-update&#39;).&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;Correct nn ispell build, avoid crash in munchlist causing lots of
   words to fall out of the database.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;Use grep -a to convince grep it is working on text files, to work
   with newer grep versions.&lt;/li&gt;

 &lt;li&gt;Remove some words disputed in the no.speling.org review process:
   &lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;apparent (nb)&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;likke (nb)&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;ugjest, ugjesten, ugjestens (nb)&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;
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                <title>I.F. Stone - an inspiration for us all</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_F__Stone___an_inspiration_for_us_all.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2016 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;I first got to know I.F. Stone when I came across an article by Jon
Schwarz on The Intercept
&lt;a href=&quot;https://theintercept.com/2015/05/07/new-documentary-legacy-f-stone/&quot;&gt;about
his extraordinary contribution to investigative journalism in
USA&lt;/a&gt;. The article is about a new documentary in two parts
(&lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com/123974841&quot;&gt;part one is 12 minutes&lt;/a&gt; and
&lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com/123974842&quot;&gt;part two is 30 minutes&lt;/a&gt;), and
I found both truly fascinating.  It is amazing what he was able to
find by digging up public sources and government papers.  He
documented lots of government abuse and cover ups, and I find
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ifstone.org/weekly.php&quot;&gt;his weekly news letters&lt;/a&gt;
inspiring to read even today.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. 
&lt;br&gt;- I. F. Stone
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;His starting point was that reporters should not assume governments
and corporations are telling the truth, but verify all their claims as
much as possible.  I wonder how many Norwegian reporters can be said
to follow the principles of I. F. Stone.  They are definitely in short
supply.  If you, like me half a year ago, have never heard of him,
check him out.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>A French paperback edition of the book Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig is now available</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m happy to report that
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html&quot;&gt;the
French paperback edition&lt;/a&gt; of
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;my
project to translate&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free
Culture&lt;/a&gt; book by Lawrence Lessig is now available for sale on
Lulu.com.  Once I have formally verified my proof reading copy, which
should be in the mail, the paperback edition should be available in
book stores like Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble too.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This French edition, Culture Libre, is the work of the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;dblatex&lt;/a&gt; developer Benoît
Guillon, who created the PO file from the initial translation
available from
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikilivres.ca/wiki/Culture_libre&quot;&gt;the Wikilivres
wiki pages&lt;/a&gt; and completed and corrected the translation to match
the original docbook edition my project is using, as well as
coordinated the proof reading of the final result.  I believe the end
result look great, but I am biased and do not read French.  In
addition to the paperback edition, the book is available in PDF, EPUB
and Mobi format from the github project page linked to above.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When enabling book store distribution on Lulu.com, I had to nearly
triple the price to allow the book stores some profit.  I also had to
accept that I will get some revenue when a book is sold via Lulu.com.
But because of the non-commercial clause in the book license
(CC-BY-NC), this might be a problem.  To bypass the problem I
discussed how to handle the revenue with the author, and we agreed
that the revenue for these editions go to the
&lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons non-profit
Corporation&lt;/a&gt; who handle donations to the Creative Commons project.
So far they have earned around USD 70 on sales of the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22440520.html&quot;&gt;English&lt;/a&gt;
and
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html&quot;&gt;Norwegian
Bokmål&lt;/a&gt; editions, according to Lulu.com.  They will get the revenue
for the French edition too.  Their revenue is higher if you buy the
book directly from Lulu.com instead of via a book store, so I
recommend you buy directly from Lulu.com.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you would like to get the book published in your language?
The translation is done using a web based translator service, so the
technical bar to enter is fairly low.  Get in touch if you would like
to make this happen.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Lets make a Norwegian Bokmål edition of The Debian Administrator&#39;s Handbook</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2016 23:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;During this weekends
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/news/Oslo__Takk_for_feilfiksingsfesten.shtml&quot;&gt;bug
squashing party and developer gathering&lt;/a&gt;, we decided to do our part
to make sure there are good books about Debian available in Norwegian
Bokmål, and got in touch with the people behind the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://debian-handbook.info/&quot;&gt;Debian Administrator&#39;s Handbook
project&lt;/a&gt; to get started.  If you want to help out, please start
contributing using
&lt;a href=&quot;https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/debian-handbook/&quot;&gt;the
hosted weblate project page&lt;/a&gt;, and get in touch using
&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-handbook-translators&quot;&gt;the
translators mailing list&lt;/a&gt;.  Please also check out
&lt;a href=&quot;https://debian-handbook.info/contribute/&quot;&gt;the instructions for
contributors&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The book is already available on paper in English, French and
Japanese, and our goal is to get it available on paper in Norwegian
Bokmål too.  In addition to the paper edition, there are also EPUB and
Mobi versions available.  And there are incomplete translations
available for many more languages.&lt;/p&gt;
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