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                <title>Petter Reinholdtsen</title>
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                <title>Debian Edu interview: Angela Fuß</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Here is another interview with one of the people in the &lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
community.  I am running short on people willing to be interviewed, so
if you know about someone I should interview, Please send me an email.
After asking for many months, I finally managed to lure another one of
the people behind the German
&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.it-zukunft-schule.de/&quot;&gt;IT-Zukunft Schule&lt;/a&gt;&quot;
project out from maternity leave to conduct an interview.  Give a warm
welcome to Angela Fuß. :)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am a 39-year-old woman living in the very north of Germany near
Denmark. I live in a patchwork family with &quot;my man&quot; Mike Gabriel, my
two daughters, Mikes daughter and Mikes and my rather newborn son.

&lt;p&gt;At the moment - because of our little baby - I am spending most of
the day by being a caring and organising mom for all the kids.
Besides that I am really involved into and occupied with several inner
growth processes: New born souls always bring the whole familiar
system into movement and that needs time and focus ;-).  We are also
in the middle of buying a house and moving to it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In 2013 I will work again in my job in a German foundation for
nature conservation. I am doing public relation work there.  Besides
that - and that is the connection to Skolelinux / Debian Edu - I am
working in our own school project &quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot; in North
Germany. I am responsible for the quality assurance, the customer
relationship management and the communication processes in the
project.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Since 2001 I constantly have been training myself in communication
and leadership. Besides that I am a forester, a landscaping gardener
and a yoga teacher.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I fell in love with Mike ;-).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Very soon after getting to know him I was completely enrolled into
Free Software.  At this time Mike did IT-services for one newly
founded school in Kiel. Other schools in Kiel needed concepts for
their IT environment.  Often when Mike came home from working at the
newly founded school I found myself listening to his complaints about
several points where the communication with the schools head or the
teachers did not work.  So we were clear that he would not work for
one more school if we did not set up a structure for communication
between him, the schools head, the teachers, the students and the
parents.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Together with our friend and hardware supplier Andreas Buchholz we
started to get an overview of free software solutions suitable for
schools. One day before Christmas 2010 Mike and I had a date with Kurt
Gramlich in Gütersloh. As Kurt and I are really interested in building
networks of people and in being in communication we dived into
Skolelinux and brought it to the first grammar schools in Northern
Germany.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For information about our school project you can read
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html&quot;&gt;the
interview with Mike Gabriel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;First I have to say: I cannot answer this question technically. My
answer comes rather from a social point of view.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The biggest advantage of Skolelinux / Debian Edu I see is the large
and strong international community of Debian Developers in the
background which is very alive and connected over mailinglists, blogs
and meetings. My constant feeling for the Debian Community is: If
something does not work they will somehow fix it. All is well
;-). This is of course a user experience.  What I also get as a big
advantage of Skolelinux / Debian Edu is that everybody who uses it and
works with it can also contribute to it - that includes students,
teachers, parents...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I will answer this question relating to the internal structure of
Skolelinux / Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What I see as a major disadvantage is that there is a gap between
the group of developers for Debian Edu and the people who make the
marketing, that means the people that bring Skolelinux to the
schools. There is a lack of communication between these two groups and
I think that does not really work for Skolelinux / Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Further I appreciate that Skolelinux / Debian Edu is known as a
do-ocracy. Nevertheless I keep asking myself if at some points a
democracy or some kind of hierarchical project structure would be good
and helpful.  I am also missing some kind of contact between the
Skolelinux / Debian Edu communities in Europe or on an international
level. I think it would be good if there was more sharing between the
different countries using Skolelinux / Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;On my laptop I am still using an Ubuntu 10.04 with a Gnome Desktop
on.  As applications I use Openoffice.org, Gedit, Firefox, Pidgin,
LaTeX and GnuCash. For mails I am using Horde. And I am really fond of
my N900 running with Maemo.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am really convinced that in our school project &quot;IT-Zukunft
Schule&quot; we have developed (and keep developing) a great way to get
schools to use Free Software. We have written a detailed concept for
that so I cannot explain the whole thing here. But in a nutshell the
strategy has three crucial pillars:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;

&lt;li&gt;We really take time to get what sort of stories, questions and
concerns the schools head and the teachers have about using different
kinds of IT and we take time to enrol them into Free Software.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Our solution for schools is never just technical. In the centre
are always the people who are going to use the software. From the very
beginning of the planning for a school, we tell the schools head that
they are paying us not only for a technical solution for their school,
they also pay us for leading all the communication processes
needed. If they do not want that, we are not working with them because
we cannot give a guarantee for the quality of our work then.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Another focus lies in the training of teachers and students in
co-administrating the IT-System at their school. They start getting in
contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu community and they get the
offer to become more and more independent from us.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;
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                <title>RFID-pass deler bilder av fingeravtrykkene dine ved enhver grensepassering</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 23:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Leste nettopp
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/905822/fikk-koffert-avtale&quot;&gt;Digiartikkel om
Idex&lt;/a&gt;, som stolt fortalte at de hadde fått en stor ny kunde av
fingeravtrykksløsningen de lager:

&lt;blockquote&gt;
Kunden skal utvikle sikkerhetslåser til bruk på kofferter som skal
produseres av markedsledende produsenter. Idexs fingeravtrykksensor og
tilhørende programvare vil bli en del av den elektroniske låsen, som
erstatning for nøkkel eller kode. Brukeren «innrullerer» fingeravtrykk
direkte på låsen og mekanismen vil låses opp bare dersom brukeren
sveiper en innrullert finger over sensoren.
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Det fascinerer meg at noen i Norge tror fingeravtrykk kan brukes
til å sikre noe som helst, gitt at elektroniske pass har bilder av
fingeravtrykkene elektronisk lesbart via RFID, og en må anta bildene
blir lest og arkivert ved enhver grensepassering en foretar seg.  I
tillegg kan RFID-pass leses på betydelig avstand (10-20 meter sier de
som har testet, f.eks. 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2009/02/03/drive-by-reader-for-rfid-drivers-licenses-and-passport-cards/&quot;&gt;Chris
Paget&lt;/a&gt;), slik at en ikke lenger trenger å invitere noen på et glass
eller en kaffe for å kunne få tak i vedkommendes fingeravtrykk.  Det
holder å ta med seg en RFID-leser til utenfor huset til vedkommende
eller kontrollere en passkontroll.  F.eks. skryter
&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates&quot;&gt;De forente
Arabiske Emirater&lt;/a&gt; av at
&lt;a href=&quot;http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/10/15/1651216/the-uae-claims-to-hold-the-worlds-largest-biometric-database&quot;&gt;de
har verdens største biometriske database&lt;/a&gt;, der databasen inneholder
103 millioner digitale fingeravtrykk.  Med en befolkning i følge
Wikipedia estimert i 2010 til 8.3 millioner har jeg vanskelig for å
tro at det kun er landets innbyggere de har fingeravtrykkene til.
Innbyggerne har neppe mer enn 10 fingre hver...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;RFID-pass med fingeravtrykk betyr at bilder av ens fingeravtrykk er
på vidvanke, og en kan dermed ikke i god tro anta at fingeravtrykk kun
befinner seg hos fingerens eier.  Jeg vil ikke ha et slikt pass.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>59 kommuner omfavner nå FiksGataMi</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/59_kommuner_omfavner_n__FiksGataMi.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 5 Nov 2012 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/?q=http://www.nuug.no/prosjekt/fiksgatami/fiksgatami-municipalities-201210.kml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-10-17-fiksgatami.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For noen dager siden omfavnet to nye kommuner NUUGs
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/&quot;&gt;FiksGataMi&lt;/a&gt;.  Med 59 kommuner
som lenker til FiksGataMi fra sine hjemmesider er &quot;markedsandelen&quot;
13,8 % (av 429 kommuner).  Sist ut er Stange og Utsira kommune, som
slår følge med kommunene Askim, Askøy, Audnedal, Aure, Balestrand,
Bærum, Eide, Farsund, Flekkefjord, Folldal, Gran, Grue, Hadsel,
Halden, Halsa, Hamar, Hobøl, Holtålen, Hægebostad, Høyanger,
Kongsberg, Kristiansund, Kvinesdal, Kviteseid, Levanger, Lindesnes,
Luster, Lyngdal, Løten, Mandal, Marnardal, Moss, Namsos, Nissedal,
Nordreisa, Randaberg, Rindal, Sel, Sirdal, Skiptvet, Sortland,
Spydeberg, Stjørdal, Stord, Søgne, Sør-Odal, Tolga, Trysil, Tynset,
Tysvær, Ullensvang Herad, Vennesla, Verdal, Vågan, Vågå, Våler og
Åseral.  Oppdatert liste er tilgjengelig fra
&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/fiksgatami/positivemottakere&quot;&gt;NUUGs
wiki&lt;/a&gt;.  Kartet er dog ikke oppdatert med de siste kommunene.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Kanskje du bør høre med din kommune om de vil bli mer aktive
brukere av FiksGataMi?  Se
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/40_kommuner_lenker_n__til_FiksGataMi_fra_sine_nettsider___gj_r_din_.html&quot;&gt;en
tidligere bloggpost&lt;/a&gt; med tips om hvordan det kan gjøres.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I snitt rapporteres det nå via FiksGataMi ca. 100 meldinger i uka fra
innbyggerne om feil på offentlig infrastruktur.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>The European Central Bank (ECB) take a look at bitcoin</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_European_Central_Bank__ECB__take_a_look_at_bitcoin.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 4 Nov 2012 08:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Slashdot just ran a story about the European Central Bank (ECB)
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/virtualcurrencyschemes201210en.pdf&quot;&gt;releasing
a report (PDF)&lt;/a&gt; about virtual currencies and
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bitcoin.org/&quot;&gt;bitcoin&lt;/a&gt;.  It is interesting to
see how a member of the bitcoin community
&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.bitinstant.com/blog/2012/10/30/the-ecb-report-on-bitcoin-and-virtual-currencies.html&quot;&gt;receive
the report&lt;/a&gt;.  As for the future, I suspect the central banks and
the governments will outlaw bitcoin if it gain any popularity, to avoid
competition.  My thoughts go to the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wörgl&quot;&gt;Wörgl experiment&lt;/a&gt; with
negative inflation on cash which was such a success that it was
terminated by the Austrian National Bank in 1933.  A successful
alternative would be a threat to the current money system and gain
powerful forces to work against it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;While checking out the current status of bitcoin, I also discovered
that the community already seem to have
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/27/3271637/bitcoin-savings-trust-pyramid-scheme-shuts-down&quot;&gt;experienced
its first pyramid game / Ponzi scheme&lt;/a&gt;.  Not very surprising, given
how members of &quot;small&quot; communities tend to trust each other.  I guess
enterprising crocks will try again and again, as they do anywhere
wealth is available.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Ode til Frikanalen...</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 2 Nov 2012 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;I 2009 bidro vi i &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt; til at
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;Frikanalen&lt;/a&gt; ble
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Frikanalen_og_jul_i_studentr_det.html&quot;&gt;tilgjengelig
i et fritt og åpent standardisert videoformat&lt;/a&gt;.  Bakgrunnen var at
vi i NUUG likte tanken på «Youtube på TV», der enhver borger kunne få
mulighet til å kringkaste sin video på TV, og NUUG ble medlem i
Frikanalen for å støtte dette arbeidet.  Frikanalen er borger-TV, der
alle kan være sin egen redaktør og lage TV uten solid finansielle
muskler.  Siden den gang har vi bistått kanalen på ulikt vis, blant
annet med å hjelpe til med å utvikle en løsning basert på fri
programvare for drift av TV-kanalen.  Dette utviklingsarbeidet pågår
fortsatt, men det er god fremgang og godt håp om å få på plass en
webbasert løsning for styring av TV-kanalen basert på fri programvare.
Dagens produksjonsløsning er basert på Windows og proprietær
programvare, et resultat av at kulturdepartementet krevde at
Frikanalen kom på lufta veldig raskt da departementet overtalte
Frivillighet Norge til å snappe opp konseptet.  Dagens
produksjonsløsning er dyr i drift, og en fri programvareløsning bør
kutte kostnadene litt.  Men det er fortsatt dyrt å kjøpe tilgang til å
sende ut på RiksTV og andre TV-distributører, noe som spiser av
kanalens begrensede midler.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Nytt for 2013 er dessverre at kulturdepartementet kutter all støtte
til Frikanalen.  Mens det i
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.regjeringen.no/pages/35168579/PDFS/PRP201120120001KUDDDDPDFS.pdf&quot;&gt;statsbudsjettet
for 2012&lt;/a&gt; sto følgende (side 55):&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;

Det foreslås et driftstilskudd på 1 mill. kroner i 2012 til
Frikanalen. Kulturdepartementet har inngått avtale om investerings- og
driftsstøtte til Frikanalen som gir et økonomisk grunnlag for kanalen
i oppstartsårene. En forutsetning for støtten er bl.a. at Frikanalen
tilstreber å være en reell ytringskanal for samtlige partier og lister
i forbindelse med valg.

&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Så har kulturdepartementet
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.knif.no/Innkjop/Knif-Samfunn/Informasjonsbrev/Informasjonsbrev-2012/Frikanalen&quot;&gt;kuttet
all støtte for 2013&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Statsbudsjettet 2013: Frikanalen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Det er ikke satt av penger i statsbudsjettet for 2013 til Frikanalen.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Frivillighet Norge var fødselshjelper for foreningen Frikanalen i
2007. Kanalen har fått 1 mill kr i altfor lav bevilgning hvis kanalen
skulle klare å realisere målet om å være en opplæringsarena for
frivillige organisasjoner som ville lære å bruke billedspråk.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;TV-mediets posisjon som kommunikasjonskanal har endret seg
betydelig siden Frikanalen ble etablert. Det er supplert og til dels
erstattet av andre kommunikasjonskanaler, som det også er
ressurskrevende for organisasjonene å ta i bruk.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Når en ser bort fra den merkelige begrunnelsen, da Frikanalen så
vidt jeg vet aldri har tatt mål av seg «å være en opplæringsarena for
frivillige organisasjoner som ville lære å bruke billedspråk», så er
det veldig trist at kulturdepartementet kutter støtten.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Fundamentet for Frikanalen ble lagt da Stortinget vedtok
innføringen av det digitale bakkenettet.  En oversikt over
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openchannel.no/stortinget.html&quot;&gt;det Stortinget
skrev&lt;/a&gt; da finnes på nettsidene til åpen kanal.  Der het det blant
annet om «åpne kanaler»:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;

Et annet flertall, alle unntatt medlemmene fra Fremskrittspartiet, vil
også peke på at man ut fra ønsket om en bredt anlagt offentlig debatt,
må se på den faktiske tilgjengelighet allmennheten har til
TV-mediet. I mange land har man ønsket å sikre denne tilgangen gjennom
egen lovgivning som forplikter allmennkringkastere eller distributører
å holde av en del av sendekapasiteten til livssynskanaler, ideelle
organisasjoner og lignende. I Norden betegnes dette gjerne som åpne
kanaler. Dette flertallet mener dette er et interessant område sett i
et ytringsfrihetsperspektiv. Dette flertallet mener derfor at staten
bør legge til rette for dette når man ved innføring av nye
distribusjonskanaler skal utarbeide regelverk og gi konsesjoner.
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Veien frem har gått over svært ulendt terreng, noe en kan se litt
av konturene av i en artikkel hos Vox Publica med tittel
«&lt;a href=&quot;http://voxpublica.no/2007/03/hvor-apen-blir-frikanalen/&quot;&gt;Hvor
åpen blir “Frikanalen”?&lt;/a&gt;».  Begge tekstene er nyttig lesning for å
forstå mer om hva Frikanalen er. Jeg anbefaler alle å støtte opp om
Frikanalen, bli medlem, lage og sende programmer der.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>12 years of outages - summarised by Stuart Kendrick</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;I work at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uio.no/&quot;&gt;University of Oslo&lt;/a&gt;
looking after the computers, mostly on the unix side, but in general
all over the place.  I am also a member (and currently leader) of
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;the NUUG association&lt;/a&gt;, which in turn
make me a member of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usenix.org/&quot;&gt;USENIX&lt;/a&gt;.  NUUG
is an member organisation for us in Norway interested in free
software, open standards and unix like operating systems, and USENIX
is a US based member organisation with similar targets.  And thanks to
these memberships, I get all issues of the great USENIX magazine
&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.usenix.org/publications/login&quot;&gt;;login:&lt;/a&gt; in the
mail several times a year.  The magazine is great, and I read most of
it every time.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In the last issue of the USENIX magazine ;login:, there is an
article by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skendric.com/&quot;&gt;Stuart Kendrick&lt;/a&gt; from
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center titled
&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/october-2012-volume-37-number-5/what-takes-us-down&quot;&gt;What
Takes Us Down&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (longer version also
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skendric.com/problem/incident-analysis/2012-06-30/What-Takes-Us-Down.pdf&quot;&gt;available
from his own site&lt;/a&gt;), where he report what he found when he
processed the outage reports (both planned and unplanned) from the
last twelve years and classified them according to cause, time of day,
etc etc.  The article is a good read to get some empirical data on
what kind of problems affect a data centre, but what really inspired
me was the kind of reporting they had put in place since 2000.&lt;p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The centre set up a mailing list, and started to send fairly
standardised messages to this list when a outage was planned or when
it already occurred, to announce the plan and get feedback on the
assumtions on scope and user impact.  Here is the two example from the
article: First the unplanned outage:

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
Subject:     Exchange 2003 Cluster Issues
Severity:    Critical (Unplanned)
Start:       Monday, May 7, 2012, 11:58
End:         Monday, May 7, 2012, 12:38
Duration:    40 minutes
Scope:       Exchange 2003
Description: The HTTPS service on the Exchange cluster crashed, triggering
             a cluster failover.

User Impact: During this period, all Exchange users were unable to
             access e-mail. Zimbra users were unaffected.
Technician:  [xxx]
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Next the planned outage:

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
Subject:     H Building Switch Upgrades
Severity:    Major (Planned)
Start:       Saturday, June 16, 2012, 06:00
End:         Saturday, June 16, 2012, 16:00
Duration:    10 hours
Scope:       H2 Transport
Description: Currently, Catalyst 4006s provide 10/100 Ethernet to end-
             stations. We will replace these with newer Catalyst
             4510s.
User Impact: All users on H2 will be isolated from the network during
             this work. Afterward, they will have gigabit
             connectivity.
Technician:  [xxx]
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;He notes in his article that the date formats and other fields have
been a bit too free form to make it easy to automatically process them
into a database for further analysis, and I would have used ISO 8601
dates myself to make it easier to process (in other words I would ask
people to write &#39;2012-06-16 06:00 +0000&#39; instead of the start time
format listed above).  There are also other issues with the format
that could be improved, read the article for the details.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I find the idea of standardising outage messages seem to be such a
good idea that I would like to get it implemented here at the
university too.  We do register
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uio.no/tjenester/it/aktuelt/planlagte-tjenesteavbrudd/&quot;&gt;planned
changes and outages in a calendar&lt;/a&gt;, and report the to a mailing
list, but we do not do so in a structured format and there is not a
report to the same location for unplanned outages.  Perhaps something
for other sites to consider too?&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Amazon steal books from customer and throw out her out without any explanation</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;A blog post from Martin Bekkelund today tell the story of
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm/&quot;&gt;how
Amazon erased the books from a customer&#39;s kindle, locked the account
and refuse to tell the customer why&lt;/a&gt;.  If a real book store did
this to a customer, it would be called breaking into private property
and theft.  The story has spread around the net today.  A bit more
background information is available in Norwegian from
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/904658/hun-ble-kastet-ut-av-amazon&quot;&gt;digi.no&lt;/a&gt;.
It is no surprise that digital restriction mechanisms (DRM) are used
this way, as it has been warned about such abuse since DRM was
introduced many years back.  And Amazon proved in 2009 that it was
willing to
&lt;a href=&quot;http://boingboing.net/2009/07/20/amazons-orwellian-de.html&quot;&gt;
break into customers equipment and remove the books&lt;/a&gt; people had
bought, when it removed the book 1984 by George Orwell from all the
customers who had bought it.  From the official comments, it even
sounded like
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html&quot;&gt;Amazon
would never do that again&lt;/a&gt;.  And here we are, three years
later.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And thought this action is
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itavisen.no/904648/forbrukerraadet-helt-haarreisende&quot;&gt;against
Norwegian regulations and law&lt;/a&gt;, it is according to the terms of use
as written by Amazon, and it is hard to hold Amazon accountable to
Norwegian laws.  It is just yet another example of unacceptable terms
of use on the web, and how they are used to remove customer
rights.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Luckily for electronic books, there are alternatives without
unacceptable terms.  For example
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gutenberg.org/&quot;&gt;Project Gutenberg&lt;/a&gt; (about 40,000
books), &lt;a href=&quot;http://runeberg.org/&quot;&gt;Project Runenberg&lt;/a&gt; (1,652
books) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.archive.org/details/texts&quot;&gt;The Internet
Archive&lt;/a&gt; (3,641,797 books) have heaps of books without DRM, which
can read by anyone and shared with anyone.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Update 2012-10-23: This story broke in the morning on Monday. In
the evening after the story had spread all across the Internet, Amazon
restored the account of the user, as reported by
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/904675/helomvending-fra-amazon&quot;&gt;digi.no&lt;/a&gt;
and &lt;a href=&quot;http://nrk.no/kultur-og-underholdning/1.8368487&quot;&gt;NRK&lt;/a&gt;.
Apparently public pressure work.  The story from Martin have seen
several twitter messages per minute the last 24 hours, which is quite
a lot, and is still drawing a lot of attention.  But even when the
account is restored, the fundamental problem still exist.  I recommend
reading two opinions from
&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2012/10/rights-you-have-no-right-to-your-ebooks/index.htm&quot;&gt;Simon
Phipps&lt;/a&gt; and
&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/10/is-amazon-playing-fair/index.htm&quot;&gt;Glen
Moody&lt;/a&gt; if you want to learn more about the fundamentals and more
details about the original story.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>The fight for freedom and privacy</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Civil liberties and privacy in the western world are going down the
drain, and it is hard to fight against it.  I try to do my best, but
time is limited.  I hope you do your best too.  A few years ago I came
across a marvellous drawing by
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.claybennett.com/about.html&quot;&gt;Clay Bennett&lt;/a&gt;
visualising some of what is going on.

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.claybennett.com/pages/security_fence.html&quot;&gt;
&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.claybennett.com/images/archivetoons/security_fence.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
«They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.» - Benjamin Franklin
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Do you feel safe at the airport?  I do not.  Do you feel safe when
you see a surveillance camera?  I do not.  Do you feel safe when you
leave electronic traces of your behaviour and opinions?  I do not.  I
just remember &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon&quot;&gt;the
Panopticom&lt;/a&gt;, and can not help help to think that we are slowly
transforming our society to a huge Panopticom on our own.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>57 kommuner omfavner nå FiksGataMi</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/57_kommuner_omfavner_n__FiksGataMi.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/?q=http://www.nuug.no/prosjekt/fiksgatami/fiksgatami-municipalities-201210.kml&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-10-17-fiksgatami.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For noen dager siden omfavnet nok en kommune NUUGs
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/&quot;&gt;FiksGataMi&lt;/a&gt;.  Med 57 kommuner
som lenker til FiksGataMi fra sine hjemmesider er &quot;markedsandelen&quot;
13% (av 429 kommuner).  Sist ut er Våler kommune, som slår
følge med kommunene Askim, Askøy, Audnedal, Aure, Balestrand, Bærum,
Eide, Farsund, Flekkefjord, Folldal, Gran, Grue, Hadsel, Halden,
Halsa, Hamar, Hobøl, Holtålen, Hægebostad, Høyanger, Kongsberg,
Kristiansund, Kvinesdal, Kviteseid, Levanger, Lindesnes, Luster,
Lyngdal, Løten, Mandal, Marnardal, Moss, Namsos, Nissedal, Nordreisa,
Randaberg, Rindal, Sel, Sirdal, Skiptvet, Sortland, Spydeberg,
Stjørdal, Stord, Søgne, Sør-Odal, Tolga, Trysil, Tynset, Tysvær,
Ullensvang Herad, Vennesla, Verdal, Vågan, Vågå og Åseral.  Oppdatert
liste og kart er tilgjengelig fra
&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/fiksgatami/positivemottakere&quot;&gt;NUUGs
wiki&lt;/a&gt;.

&lt;p&gt;I snitt rapporteres det nå via FiksGataMi ca. 110 meldinger fra
innbyggerne i uka om feil på offentlig infrastruktur.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Netflix krever at du frasier deg dine forbrukerrettigheter...</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Filmtjenesten Netflix lanseres i Norge, med en jublende presse på
sidelinjen.  Men har journalistene lest bruksvilkårene?  Synes de
avsnitt nummer to i
«&lt;a href=&quot;https://signup.netflix.com/TermsOfUse?locale=nb-NO&quot;&gt;Vilkår
for bruk&lt;/a&gt;» høres greit ut for en forbrukertjeneste i Norge?
Avsnittet lyder slik:

&lt;blockquote&gt;

«Disse vilkårene for bruk innebærer at alle tvister mellom deg og
Netflix vil bli løst ved BINDENDE VOLDGIFT. DU SAMTYKKER I AT DU
FRASIER DEG ENHVER RETT TIL RETTSLIGE SKRITT for å hevde eller
forsvare rettighetene dine under denne kontrakten (med unntak for
mindre saker som kan avgjøres i forliksretten). Rettighetene dine vil
bli bestemt av en NØYTRAL VOLDGIFTSMANN/MEKLER og IKKE en dommer eller
jury, og krav kan ikke framstilles i form av gruppesøksmål. Les
gjennom voldgiftsavtalen nedenfor for å finne alle detaljer vedrørende
avtalen, slik at du kan se hvordan en eventuell konflikt med Netflix
skal håndteres og vil avgjøres.»

&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Ikke nok med det, men må akseptere at det er USAs lov som skal
regulere bruken, og dermed akseptere å miste norsk forbruker- og
personvernlovgiving (hvilket så vidt jeg vet ikke kan gjøres i
Norge).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
«Gjennom å godta disse vilkår for bruk samtykker du i at tolkingen og
håndhevelsen av denne voldgiftsavtalen er underlagt den føderale
voldgiftsloven i USA, U.S. Federal Arbitration Act, og at både du og
Netflix frasier dere retten til en juryprosess eller deltakelse i
gruppesøksmål. Denne voldgiftsbetingelsen gjelder selv etter at denne
avtalen er oppsagt og Netflix-medlemskapet ditt har opphørt.»
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;En må altså si ja til å frasi seg de vanlige forbrukerrettighetene
i Norge for å bruke Netflix.  Vilkårene til Netflix vil neppe stå seg
i norsk rett, men det er usedvanlig frekt å bare foreslå det, da de
aller fleste som leser dem vil anta at vilkårene gjelder med mindre de
er svært godt kjent med norsk forbrukerrett.  Skal en frasi seg
muligheten til å hevde sin rett hvis Netflix lekker personopplysninger
(USAs lovgiving er svært mangelfull i forhold til den norske
personvernlovgivingen) eller leverer en tjeneste som ikke holder mål?
Nei takk.  Med slike bruksvilkår takker jeg høflig nei til tilbudet,
og de får ikke meg som kunde før de har en helt annen tilnærming mot
sine kunder.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Oppdatering 2012-10-18: Både
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/digital/Netflix-krever-at-du-sier-fra-deg-norske-forbrukerrettigheter-7021182.html&quot;&gt;Aftenposten&lt;/a&gt;,
&lt;a href=&quot;http://nrk.no/helse-forbruk-og-livsstil/1.8362951&quot;&gt;NRK&lt;/a&gt; og
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.teknofil.no/artikler/forbrukerradet-slakter-netflix/113679&quot;&gt;Teknofil&lt;/a&gt;
har snappet opp saken (dog nevner ikke NRK kilde, så de kan jo ha
oppdaget det selv).  Veldig bra at flere blir oppmerksom på slike
ting.  «- Helt hinsides, mener Forbrukerrådet om Netflix&#39;
brukervilkår», siterer Aftenposten.  Og 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/Forbrukerombudet-vil-granske-TV-markedet-7021465.html&quot;&gt;Aftenposten&lt;/a&gt;
melder videre at Forbrukerrådet vil granske TV-bransjen med bakgrunn i
dette.&lt;/p&gt;
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