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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen</title>
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  10                 <title>SQL-database med anbud publisert på Doffin</title>
  11                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SQL_database_med_anbud_publisert_p__Doffin.html</link>
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  13                 <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.doffin.no/&quot;&gt;Doffin&lt;/a&gt; er det offentlige Norges
  15 portal for annonsering av anbudsutlysninger.  Nettstedet er mye brukt,
  16 men rådataene er ikke enkelt tilgjengelig for almenheten.  For å bøte
  17 på det har jeg som et &lt;a href=&quot;htt://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG-prosjekt&lt;/a&gt;
  18 laget en &lt;a href=&quot;http://scraperwiki.com/&quot;&gt;Scraperwiki&lt;/a&gt;-skraper som
  19 lager en
  20 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/norwegian-doffin/&quot;&gt;SQL-database
  21 med nøkkelinformasjonen fra Doffin&lt;/a&gt;, slik at det er mulig å søke og
  22 analysere Doffin-oppføringene.  Det publiseres mellom 900-1500 anbud
  23 hver måned via Doffin.  Jeg har ingen konkrete planer for analyse, men
  24 håper enklere tilgjengelighet gjør at flere griper sjansen.  På sikt
  25 håper jeg å bruke denne databasen som grunnlag for å lage en database
  26 over anbudsdokumenter, som i dag ikke er tilgjengelig fra doffin, men
  27 må bestilles fra hver enkelt utlyser.&lt;/p&gt;
  28
  29 &lt;p&gt;Jeg var litt usikker på om det var rettighetsproblemer knyttet til
  30 skraping av informasjon fra Doffin, men ser i
  31 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.doffin.no/sitehelp/help_terms.aspx&quot;&gt;vilkårene til
  32 Doffin&lt;/a&gt; følgende:&lt;/p&gt;
  33
  34 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
  35
  36 &lt;p&gt;Opphavsrett mv&lt;/p&gt;
  37
  38 &lt;p&gt;Ved innleggig av kunngjøringer på Doffin aksepterer Oppdragsgiver
  39 at opphavsrett og andre rettigheter til materialet overføres til
  40 Fornyings- og administrasjonsdepartementet, eller den departementet
  41 utnevner.  Oppdragsgiver har imidlertid bruksrett til materialet, og
  42 kan benytte det til de formål de måtte ønske.&lt;/p&gt;
  43
  44 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  45
  46 &lt;p&gt;Hvis informasjonen er vernet av opphavsrettsloven (hvilket jeg
  47 tviler på, gitt lovens begrensninger om informasjon fra det
  48 offentlige), så er det FAD som har de immaterielle rettighetene.  FAD
  49 er en del av staten, som opererer på vegne av folket, og enhver borger
  50 skulle dermed ha rett til å videreformidle informasjonen.  Ingen av
  51 offentlighetslovens unntak kommer til anvendelse, i og med at
  52 informasjonen allerede er publisert.&lt;/p&gt;
  53 </description>
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  57                 <title>Debian Edu - some ideas for the future versions</title>
  58                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu___some_ideas_for_the_future_versions.html</link>
  59                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu___some_ideas_for_the_future_versions.html</guid>
  60                 <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
  61                 <description>&lt;p&gt;During my work on
  62 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.nb.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
  63 based on Squeeze&lt;/a&gt;, I came across some issues that should be
  64 addressed in the Wheezy release.  I finally found time to wrap up my
  65 notes and provide quick summary of what I found, with a bit
  66 explanation.&lt;/p&gt;
  67
  68 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
  69
  70 &lt;li&gt;We need to rewrite our package installation framework, as tasksel
  71 changed from using tasksel tasks to using meta packages (aka packages
  72 with dependencies like our education-* packages), and our installation
  73 system depend on tasksel tasks in
  74 /usr/share/tasksel/debian-edu-tasks.desc for package
  75 installation.&lt;/li&gt;
  76
  77 &lt;li&gt;Enable Kerberos login for more services.  Now with the Kerberos
  78 foundation in place, we should use it to get single sign on with more
  79 services, and avoiding unneeded password / login questions.  We should
  80 at least try to enable it for these services:
  81 &lt;ul&gt;
  82
  83   &lt;li&gt;CUPS for admins to add/configure printers and users when using
  84     quotas.&lt;/li&gt;
  85   &lt;li&gt;Nagios for admins checking the system status.&lt;/li&gt;
  86   &lt;li&gt;GOsa for admins updating LDAP and users changing their passwords.&lt;/li&gt;
  87   &lt;li&gt;LDAP for admins updating LDAP.&lt;/li&gt;
  88   &lt;li&gt;Squid for users when exam mode / filtering is active.&lt;/li&gt;
  89   &lt;li&gt;ssh for admins and users to save a password prompt.&lt;/li&gt;
  90
  91 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  92
  93 &lt;li&gt;When we move GOsa to use Kerberos instead of LDAP bind to
  94 authenticate users, we should try to block or at least limit access to
  95 use LDAP bind for authentication, to ensure Kerberos is used when it
  96 is intended, and nothing fall back to using the less safe LDAP bind&lt;/li&gt;
  97
  98 &lt;li&gt;Merge debian-edu-config and debian-edu-install.  The split made
  99 sense when d-e-install did a lot more, but these days it is just an
 100 inconvenience when we update the debconf preseeding values.&lt;/li&gt;
 101
 102 &lt;li&gt;Fix partman-auto to allow us to abort the installation before
 103 touching the disk if the disk is too small.  This is
 104 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/653305&quot;&gt;BTS report #653305&lt;/a&gt; and the
 105 d-i developers are fine with the patch and someone just need to apply
 106 it and upload.  After this is done we need to adjust
 107 debian-edu-install to use this new hook.&lt;/li&gt;
 108
 109 &lt;li&gt;Adjust to new LTSP framework (boot time config instead of install
 110 time config).  LTSP changed its design, and our hooks to install
 111 packages and update the configuration is most likely not going to work
 112 in Wheezy.
 113
 114 &lt;li&gt;Consider switching to NBD instead of NFS for LTSP root, to allow
 115 the Kernel to cache files in its normal file cache, possibly speeding
 116 up KDE login on slow networks.&lt;/li&gt;
 117
 118 &lt;li&gt;Make it possible to create expired user passwords that need to
 119 change on first login.  This is useful when handing out password on
 120 paper, to make sure only the user know the password.  This require
 121 fixes to the PAM handling of kdm and gdm.&lt;/li&gt;
 122
 123 &lt;li&gt;Make GUI for adding new machines automatically from sitesummary.
 124 The current command line script is not very friendly to people most
 125 familiar with GUIs.  This should probably be integrated into GOsa to
 126 have it available where the admin will be looking for it..&lt;/li&gt;
 127
 128 &lt;li&gt;We should find way for Nagios to check that the DHCP service
 129 actually is working (as in handling out IP addresses).  None of the
 130 Nagios checks I have found so far have been working for me.&lt;/li&gt;
 131
 132 &lt;li&gt;We should switch from libpam-nss-ldapd to sssd for all profiles
 133 using LDAP, and not only on for roaming workstations, to have less
 134 packages to configure and consistent setup across all profiles.&lt;/li&gt;
 135
 136 &lt;li&gt;We should configure Kerberos to update LDAP and Samba password
 137 when changing password using the Kerberos protocol.  The hook was
 138 requested in &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/588968&quot;&gt;BTS report
 139 #588968&lt;/a&gt; and is now available in Wheezy.  We might need to write a
 140 MIT Kerberos plugin in C to get this.&lt;/li&gt;
 141
 142 &lt;li&gt;We should clean up the set of applications installed by default.
 143 &lt;ul&gt;
 144
 145 &lt;li&gt;reduce the number of chemistry visualisers&lt;/li&gt;
 146 &lt;li&gt;consider dropping xpaint&lt;/li&gt;
 147 &lt;li&gt;and probably more?&lt;/li&gt;
 148 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 149
 150 &lt;li&gt;Some hardware need external firmware to work properly.  This is
 151 mostly the case for WiFi network cards, but there are some other
 152 examples too.  For popular laptops to work out of the box, such
 153 firmware need to be installed from non-free, and we should provide
 154 some GUI to do this.  Ubuntu already have this implemented, and we
 155 could consider using their packages.  At the moment we have some
 156 command line script to do this (one for the running system, another
 157 for the LTSP chroot).&lt;/li&gt;
 158
 159
 160 &lt;li&gt;In Squeeze, we provide KDE, Gnome and LXDE as desktop options.  We
 161 should extend the list to Xfce and Sugar, and preferably find a way to
 162 install several and allow the admin or the user to select which one to
 163 use.&lt;/li&gt;
 164
 165 &lt;li&gt;The golearn tool from the goplay package make it easy to check out
 166 interesting educational packages.  We should work on the package
 167 tagging in Debian to ensure it represent all the useful educational
 168 packages, and extend the tool to allow it to use packagekit to install
 169 new applications with a simple mouse click.&lt;/li&gt;
 170
 171 &lt;li&gt;The Squeeze version got half a exam solution already in place,
 172 with the introduction of iptable based network blocking, but for it to
 173 be a complete exam solution the Squid proxy need to enable
 174 filtering/blocking as well when the exam mode is enabled.  We should
 175 implement a way to easily enable this for the schools that want it,
 176 instead of the &quot;it is documented&quot; method of today.&lt;/li&gt;
 177
 178 &lt;li&gt;A feature used in several schools is the ability for a teacher to
 179 &quot;take over&quot; the desktop of individual or all computers in the room.
 180 There are at least three implementations,
 181 &lt;a href=&quot;italc.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;italc&lt;/a&gt;,
 182 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itais.net/help/en/&quot;&gt;controlaula&lt;/a&gt; og
 183 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.epoptes.org/&quot;&gt;epoptes&lt;/a&gt; and we should pick one of
 184 them and make it trivial to set it up in a school.  The challenges is
 185 how to distribute crypto keys and how to group computers in one room
 186 and how to set up which machine/user can control the machines in a
 187 given room.&lt;/li&gt;
 188
 189 &lt;li&gt;Tablets and surf boards are getting more and more popular, and we
 190 should look into providing a good solution for integrating these into
 191 the Debian Edu network.  Not quite sure how.  Perhaps we should
 192 provide a installation profile with better touch screen support for
 193 them, or add some sync services to allow them to exchange
 194 configuration and data with the central server.  This should be
 195 investigated.&lt;/li&gt;
 196
 197 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 198
 199 &lt;p&gt;I guess we will discover more as we continue to work on the Wheezy
 200 version.&lt;/p&gt;
 201 </description>
 202         </item>
 203
 204         <item>
 205                 <title>Litt statistikk fra Offentlig Elektronisk postjournal</title>
 206                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Litt_statistikk_fra_Offentlig_Elektronisk_postjournal.html</link>
 207                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Litt_statistikk_fra_Offentlig_Elektronisk_postjournal.html</guid>
 208                 <pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
 209                 <description>&lt;p&gt;De siste månedene har jeg sammen med andre i NUUG jobbet med å
 210 gjøre det enklere å få innsyn i offentlige dokumenter, og dette
 211 inkluderer å gjøre postjournaler enklere tilgjengelig for maskinell
 212 analyse og søk.  I den forbindelse tok jeg i dag å tittet litt på
 213 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oep.no/&quot;&gt;Offentlig Elektronisk Postjournal
 214 (OEP)&lt;/a&gt;, FAD/DIFIs fellesløsning for departementer og statlige
 215 etater.&lt;/p&gt;
 216
 217 &lt;p&gt;Her er antall oppføringer pr. måned det siste året,
 218 &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=htmltable&amp;name=postliste-oep&amp;query=select%20strftime(%22%25Y-%25m%22%2C%20%60recordpublishdate%60)%20as%20oeppubmonth%2C%20count(*)%20from%20%60swdata%60%20group%20by%20oeppubmonth%20order%20by%20oeppubmonth&quot;&gt;summert
 219 opp&lt;/a&gt; ved hjelp av
 220 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/postliste-oep/&quot;&gt;en
 221 Scraperwiki-database&lt;/a&gt;.  Merk at denne Scraperwikien har
 222 ytelsesproblemer pga. mengden data. &lt;/p&gt;
 223
 224 &lt;p&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot;&gt;
 225 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;Måned&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Antall&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 226 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-07&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;164355&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 227 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-08&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;153662&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 228 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-09&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;173134&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 229 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-10&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;170665&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 230 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-11&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;198409&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 231 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-12&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;175908&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 232 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-01&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;206875&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 233 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-02&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;202862&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 234 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-03&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;204225&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 235 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-04&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;207931&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 236 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-05&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;223754&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 237 &lt;/table&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 238
 239 &lt;p&gt;Det er også interessant å se hvor ofte ulike etater sender inn sine
 240 journaloppføringer til OEP.  OEP inneholder en liste med sist
 241 innrapporteringsdato for alle som sender til OEP, og ved å se når og
 242 hvor ofte det blir sendt inn fra etatene kan
 243 &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=htmltable&amp;name=postliste-oep-deliverydates&amp;query=select%20agency%2C%0A(julianday(datetime(&#39;now&#39;))%20-%20%0A%20julianday(min(%60deliverydate%60)))%2Fcount(*)%20as%20dayfreq%2C%0A%20count(*)%0Afrom%20%60swdata%60%20group%20by%20agency%20order%20by%20dayfreq%20desc&quot;&gt;frekvensen
 244 beregnes&lt;/a&gt;.  Her er bunnlista, dvs. de som leverer sjeldnere enn hver 10.
 245 dag beregnet fra
 246 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/postliste-oep-deliverydates/&quot;&gt;en
 247 Scraperwiki-database&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
 248
 249 &lt;p&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot;&gt;
 250
 251 &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;Etat&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Frekvens&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Leveringer&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
 252 &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Norges geologiske undersøkelse&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;83.7527546296&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
 253 &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Medietilsynet&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;33.7527546296&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
 254 &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Departementenes servicesenter&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;23.8763773148&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
 255 &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Kunnskapsdepartementet&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;15.8763773148&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
 256 &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Kompetansesenter for distriktsutvikling&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;15.3763773148&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
 257 &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Toll- og avgiftsdirektoratet&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;15.3763773148&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
 258 &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Fredskorpset&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;12.5842515432&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
 259 &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Statens legemiddelverk&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;12.1881886574&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
 260 &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Utlendingsnemnda&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;11.5842515432&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
 261 &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Politidirektoratet&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;10.9175848765&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
 262 &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Skattedirektoratet&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;10.9175848765&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
 263 &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Statens innkrevingssentral&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;10.5842515432&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
 264 &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Barne-, ungdoms- og familiedirektoratet&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;10.2509182099&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
 265 &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Kunst i offentlige rom&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;10.2509182099&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
 266
 267 &lt;/table&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 268
 269 &lt;p&gt;En kan beregne lignende frekvenser ved å sammenligne
 270 journalføringsdato med publiseringsdato for hver enkelt oppføring i
 271 OEP, men den lenken legger jeg ikke ved her for å unngå at
 272 søkemotorroboter begynner å overbelaste Scraperwiki-databasen.&lt;/p&gt;
 273
 274 &lt;p&gt;Jeg har spurt Norges geologiske undersøkelse om hvorfor de leverer
 275 så sjelden, og det kommer av at de har problemer etter oppgradering av
 276 arkivsystemet sitt og jobber med å fikse det slik at de kan gå tilbake
 277 til å levere hver uke.  Har ikke undersøkt noen av de andre.&lt;/p&gt;
 278 </description>
 279         </item>
 280
 281         <item>
 282                 <title>TV with face recognition, for improved viewer experience</title>
 283                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/TV_with_face_recognition__for_improved_viewer_experience.html</link>
 284                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/TV_with_face_recognition__for_improved_viewer_experience.html</guid>
 285                 <pubDate>Sat, 9 Jun 2012 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
 286                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Slashdot got a story about Intel planning a
 287 &lt;a href=&quot;http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/06/09/0012247/intel-to-launch-tv-service-with-facial-recognition-by-end-of-the-year&quot;&gt;TV
 288 with face recognition&lt;/a&gt; to recognise the viewer, and it occurred to
 289 me that it would be more interesting to turn it around, and do face
 290 recognition on the TV image itself.  It could let the viewer know who
 291 is present on the screen, and perhaps look up their credibility,
 292 company affiliation, previous appearances etc for the viewer to better
 293 evaluate what is being said and done.  That would be a feature I would
 294 be willing to pay for.&lt;/p&gt;
 295
 296 &lt;p&gt;I would not be willing to pay for a TV that point a camera on my
 297 household, like the big brother feature apparently proposed by Intel.
 298 It is the telescreen idea fetched straight out of the book
 299 &lt;a href=&quot;http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt&quot;&gt;1984 by George
 300 Orwell&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 301 </description>
 302         </item>
 303
 304         <item>
 305                 <title>Web service to look up HP and Dell computer hardware support status</title>
 306                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_service_to_look_up_HP_and_Dell_computer_hardware_support_status.html</link>
 307                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_service_to_look_up_HP_and_Dell_computer_hardware_support_status.html</guid>
 308                 <pubDate>Wed, 6 Jun 2012 23:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
 309                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago
 310 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html&quot;&gt;I
 311 reported how to get&lt;/a&gt; the support status out of Dell using an
 312 unofficial and undocumented SOAP API, which I since have found out was
 313 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2012-February/045959.html&quot;&gt;discovered
 314 by Daniel De Marco in february&lt;/a&gt;.  Combined with my web scraping
 315 code for HP, Dell and IBM
 316 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html&quot;&gt;from
 317 2009&lt;/a&gt;, I got inspired and wrote
 318 &lt;a href=&quot;https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/&quot;&gt;a
 319 web service&lt;/a&gt; based on Scraperwiki to make it easy to look up the
 320 support status and get a machine readable result back.&lt;/p&gt;
 321
 322 &lt;p&gt;This is what it look like at the moment when asking for the JSON
 323 output:
 324
 325 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 326 % GET &lt;a href=&quot;https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&amp;vendor=Dell&amp;servicetag=2v1xwn1&quot;&gt;https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&amp;vendor=Dell&amp;servicetag=2v1xwn1&lt;/a&gt;
 327 supportstatus({&quot;servicetag&quot;: &quot;2v1xwn1&quot;, &quot;warrantyend&quot;: &quot;2013-11-24&quot;, &quot;shipped&quot;: &quot;2010-11-24&quot;, &quot;scrapestamputc&quot;: &quot;2012-06-06T20:26:56.965847&quot;, &quot;scrapedurl&quot;: &quot;http://143.166.84.118/services/assetservice.asmx?WSDL&quot;, &quot;vendor&quot;: &quot;Dell&quot;, &quot;productid&quot;: &quot;&quot;})
 328 %
 329 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
 330
 331 &lt;p&gt;It currently support Dell and HP, and I am hoping for help to add
 332 support for other vendors.  The python source is available on
 333 Scraperwiki and I welcome help with adding more features.&lt;/p&gt;
 334 </description>
 335         </item>
 336
 337         <item>
 338                 <title>Kommentar til artikkel i Adresseavisa som omtaler FiksGataMi</title>
 339                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kommentar_til_artikkel_i_Adresseavisa_som_omtaler_FiksGataMi.html</link>
 340                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kommentar_til_artikkel_i_Adresseavisa_som_omtaler_FiksGataMi.html</guid>
 341                 <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jun 2012 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
 342                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg oppdaget nylig en
 343 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/trondheim/article1831198.ece&quot;&gt;artikkel
 344 i Adresseavisa&lt;/a&gt; i Trondheim som nevner FiksGataMi, og der Trondheim
 345 kommune ser ut til å fortelle at de ikke følger forvaltningslovens
 346 krav ved mottak av meldinger sendt inn via FiksGataMi.  La derfor
 347 nettopp inn denne kommentaren til artikkelen:&lt;p&gt;
 348
 349 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
 350
 351 &lt;p&gt;Her er en liten faktaoppdatering om FiksGataMi-tjenesten, da noen
 352 ser ut til å ha misforstått hvordan den fungerer.&lt;/p&gt;
 353
 354 &lt;p&gt;FiksGataMi er et privat initiativ opprettet og drevet av
 355 medlemsforeningen NUUG.  FiksGataMi tar imot meldinger om feil i
 356 offentlig infrastruktur, og sender meldingen skriftlig videre på vegne
 357 av innmelder til aktuell aktør i det offentlige, det være seg kommune,
 358 fylke eller vegvesenregion.  Offentlig etat blir valgt ut fra
 359 geografisk plassering og kategori valgt av innsender.  Offentlige
 360 etater er i følge forvaltningsloven pliktig å følge opp og besvare
 361 skriftlige henvendelser, og hvis noen av mottakerne ikke gjør dette
 362 kan en klage på lovbrudd i det offentlige.  FiksGataMi fungerer dermed
 363 som en slags epostklient for innbyggerne der kopi av innsendte
 364 meldinger gjøres tilgjengelig og knyttes til kartplassering for enkel
 365 gjenfinning.  Å sende inn nye problemrapporter via FiksGataMi er
 366 dermed ikke avhengig av at kommunen aktivt må følge med på meldinger
 367 hos FiksGataMi, da de får dem tilsendt på sine offisielle
 368 epostmottakspunkter.  Hvorvidt noe blir fikset og om innbyggerne er
 369 opp til mottaker av meldingene.  For Trondheim kommune er
 370 mottaksadressen bydrift.vegdrift@trondheim.kommune.no, en adresse jeg
 371 inntil jeg leste denne artikkelen trodde ble håndtert i henhold til
 372 forvaltningslovens krav.&lt;/p&gt;
 373
 374 &lt;p&gt;Kan ellers fortelle at 57 kommuner lenker til FiksGataMi fra sine
 375 nettsider, og at 37 % (4182 av 11266 ) av problemrapportene sendt inn
 376 via FiksGataMi er markert som løst i løsningen.  Trondheim kommune har
 377 fått tilbud om å få rapportene levert på datamaskinlesbart format i
 378 stedet for epost, men har ikke takket ja så langt.&lt;/p&gt;
 379
 380 &lt;p&gt;Vennlig hilsen Petter Reinholdtsen, en av NUUG-folkene bak FiksGataMi.no&lt;/p&gt;
 381
 382 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 383
 384 &lt;p&gt;Det høres for meg ut som om innbyggerne i Trondheim burde klage på
 385 kommunens potensielle lovbrudd.&lt;/p&gt;
 386 </description>
 387         </item>
 388
 389         <item>
 390                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Mike Gabriel</title>
 391                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html</link>
 392                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html</guid>
 393                 <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jun 2012 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
 394                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Back in 2010, Mike Gabriel showed up on the
 395 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
 396 mailing list.  He quickly proved to be a valuable developer, and
 397 thanks to his tireless effort we now have Kerberos integrated into the
 398 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
 399 Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; version.&lt;/p&gt;
 400
 401 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 402
 403 &lt;p&gt;My name is Mike Gabriel, I am 38 years old and live near Kiel,
 404 Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. I live together with a wonderful partner
 405 (Angela Fuß) and two own children and two bonus children (contributed
 406 by Angela).&lt;/p&gt;
 407
 408 &lt;p&gt;During the day I am part-time employed as a system administrator
 409 and part-time working as an IT consultant. The consultancy work
 410 touches free software topics wherever and whenever possible. During
 411 the nights I am a free software developer. In the gaps I also train in
 412 becoming an osteopath.&lt;/p&gt;
 413
 414 &lt;p&gt;Starting in 2010 we (Andreas Buchholz, Angela Fuß, Mike Gabriel)
 415 have set up a free software project in the area of Kiel that aims at
 416 introducing free software into schools. The project&#39;s name is
 417 &quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot; (IT future for schools). The project links IT
 418 skills with communication skills.&lt;/p&gt;
 419
 420 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 421 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 422
 423 &lt;p&gt;While preparing our own customised Linux distribution for
 424 &quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot; we were repeatedly asked if we really wanted to
 425 reinvent the wheel. What schools really need is already available,
 426 people said.  From this impulse we started evaluating other Linux
 427 distributions that target being used for school networks.&lt;/p&gt;
 428
 429 &lt;p&gt;At the end we short-listed two approaches and compared them: a
 430 commercial Linux distribution developed by a company in Bremen,
 431 Germany, and Skolelinux / Debian Edu. Between 12/2010 and 03/2011 we
 432 went to several events and met people being responsible for marketing
 433 and development of either of the distributions. Skolelinux / Debian
 434 Edu was by far much more convincing compared to the other product that
 435 got short-listed beforehand--across the full spectrum. What was most
 436 attractive for me personally: the perspective of collaboration within
 437 the developmental branch of the Debian Edu project itself.&lt;/p&gt;
 438
 439 &lt;p&gt;In parallel with this, we talked to many local and not-so-local
 440 people.  People teaching at schools, headmasters, politicians, data
 441 protection experts, other IT professionals.&lt;/p&gt;
 442
 443 &lt;p&gt;We came to two conclusions:&lt;/p&gt;
 444
 445 &lt;p&gt;First, a technical conclusion: What schools need is available in
 446 bits and pieces here and there, and none of the solutions really fit
 447 by 100%. Any school we have seen has a very individual IT setup
 448 whereas most of each school&#39;s requirements could mapped by a standard
 449 IT solution.  The requirement to this IT solution is flexibility and
 450 customisability, so that individual adaptations here and there are
 451 possible.  In terms of re-distributing and rolling out such a
 452 standardised IT system for schools (a system that is still to some
 453 degree customisable) there is still a lot of work to do here
 454 locally. Debian Edu / Skolelinux has been our choice as the starting
 455 point.&lt;/p&gt;
 456
 457 &lt;p&gt;Second, a holistic conclusion: What schools need does not exist at
 458 all (or we missed it so far). There are several technical solutions
 459 for handling IT at schools that tend to make a good impression. What
 460 has been missing completely here in Germany, though, is the enrolment
 461 of people into using IT and teaching with IT. &quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot;
 462 tries to provide an approach for this.&lt;/p&gt;
 463
 464 &lt;p&gt;Only some schools have some sort of a media concept which explains,
 465 defines and gives guidance on how to use IT in class. Most schools in
 466 Northern Germany do not have an IT service provider, the school&#39;s IT
 467 equipment is managed by one or (if the school is lucky) two (admin)
 468 teachers, most of the workload these admin teachers get done in there
 469 spare time.&lt;/p&gt;
 470
 471 &lt;p&gt;We were surprised that only a very few admin teachers were
 472 networked with colleagues from other schools. Basically, every school
 473 here around has its individual approach of providing IT equipment to
 474 teachers and students and the exchange of ideas has been quasi
 475 non-existent until 2010/2011.&lt;/p&gt;
 476
 477 &lt;p&gt;Quite some (non-admin) teachers try to avoid using IT technology in
 478 class as a learning medium completely. Several reasons for this
 479 avoidance do exist.&lt;/p&gt;
 480
 481 &lt;p&gt;We discovered that no-one has ever taken a closer look at this
 482 social part of IT management in schools, so far. On our quest journey
 483 for a technical IT solution for schools, we discussed this issue with
 484 several teachers, headmasters, politicians, other IT professionals and
 485 they all confirmed: a holistic approach of considering IT management
 486 at schools, an approach that includes the people in place, will be new
 487 and probably a gain for all.&lt;/p&gt;
 488
 489 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 490 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 491
 492 &lt;p&gt;There is a list of advantages: international context, openness to
 493 any kind of contributions, do-ocracy policy, the closeness to Debian,
 494 the different installation scenarios possible (from stand-alone
 495 workstation to complex multi-server sites), the transparency within
 496 project communication, honest communication within the group of
 497 developers, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
 498
 499 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 500 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 501
 502 &lt;p&gt;Every coin has two sides:&lt;/p&gt;
 503
 504 &lt;p&gt;Technically: &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/311188&quot;&gt;BTS issue
 505 #311188&lt;/a&gt;, tricky upgradability of a Debian Edu main server, network
 506 client installations on top of a plain vanilla Debian installation
 507 should become possible sometime in the near future, one could think
 508 about splitting the very complex package debian-edu-config into
 509 several portions (to make it easier for new developers to
 510 contribute).&lt;/p&gt;
 511
 512 &lt;p&gt;Another issue I see is that we (as Debian Edu developers) should
 513 find out more about the network of people who do the marketing for
 514 Debian Edu / Skolelinux. There is a very active group in Germany
 515 promoting Skolelinux on the bigger Linux Days within Germany. Are
 516 there other groups like that in other countries? How can we bring
 517 these marketing people together (marketing group A with group B and
 518 all of them with the group of Debian Edu developers)? During the last
 519 meeting of the German Skolelinux group, I got the impression of people
 520 there being rather disconnected from the development department of
 521 Debian Edu / Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
 522
 523 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 524
 525 &lt;p&gt;For my daily business, I do not use commercial software at all.&lt;/p&gt;
 526
 527 &lt;p&gt;For normal stuff I use Iceweasel/Firefox, Libreoffice.org. For
 528 serious text writing I prefer LaTeX. I use gimp, inkscape, scribus for
 529 more artistic tasks. I run virtual machines in KVM and Virtualbox.&lt;/p&gt;
 530
 531 &lt;p&gt;I am one of the upstream developers of X2Go. In 2010 I started the
 532 development of a Python based X2Go Client, called PyHoca-GUI.
 533 PyHoca-GUI has brought forth a Python X2Go Client API that currently
 534 is being integrated in Ubuntu&#39;s software center.&lt;/p&gt;
 535
 536 &lt;p&gt;For communications I have my own Kolab server running using Horde
 537 as web-based groupware client. For IRC I love to use irssi, for Jabber
 538 I have several clients that I use, mostly pidgin, though. I am also
 539 the Debian maintainer of Coccinella, a Jabber-based interactive
 540 whiteboard.&lt;/p&gt;
 541
 542 &lt;p&gt;My favourite terminal emulator is KDE&#39;s Yakuake.&lt;/p&gt;
 543
 544 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 545 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 546
 547 &lt;p&gt;Communicate, communicate, communicate. Enrol people, enrol people,
 548 enrol people.&lt;/p&gt;
 549 </description>
 550         </item>
 551
 552         <item>
 553                 <title>SOAP based webservice from Dell to check server support status</title>
 554                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html</link>
 555                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html</guid>
 556                 <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
 557                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few years ago I wrote
 558 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html&quot;&gt;how
 559 to extract support status&lt;/a&gt; for your Dell and HP servers.  Recently
 560 I have learned from colleges here at the
 561 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uio.no/&quot;&gt;University of Oslo&lt;/a&gt; that Dell have
 562 made this even easier, by providing a SOAP based web service.  Given
 563 the service tag, one can now query the Dell servers and get machine
 564 readable information about the support status.  This perl code
 565 demonstrate how to do it:&lt;/p&gt;
 566
 567 &lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 568 use strict;
 569 use warnings;
 570 use SOAP::Lite;
 571 use Data::Dumper;
 572 my $GUID = &#39;11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111&#39;;
 573 my $App = &#39;test&#39;;
 574 my $servicetag = $ARGV[0] or die &quot;Please supply a servicetag. $!\n&quot;;
 575 my ($deal, $latest, @dates);
 576 my $s = SOAP::Lite
 577     -&gt; uri(&#39;http://support.dell.com/WebServices/&#39;)
 578     -&gt; on_action( sub { join &#39;&#39;, @_ } )
 579     -&gt; proxy(&#39;http://xserv.dell.com/services/assetservice.asmx&#39;)
 580     ;
 581 my $a = $s-&gt;GetAssetInformation(
 582     SOAP::Data-&gt;name(&#39;guid&#39;)-&gt;value($GUID)-&gt;type(&#39;&#39;),
 583     SOAP::Data-&gt;name(&#39;applicationName&#39;)-&gt;value($App)-&gt;type(&#39;&#39;),
 584     SOAP::Data-&gt;name(&#39;serviceTags&#39;)-&gt;value($servicetag)-&gt;type(&#39;&#39;),
 585 );
 586 print Dumper($a -&gt; result) ;
 587 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 588
 589 &lt;p&gt;The output can look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
 590
 591 &lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 592 $VAR1 = {
 593           &#39;Asset&#39; =&gt; {
 594                      &#39;Entitlements&#39; =&gt; {
 595                                        &#39;EntitlementData&#39; =&gt; [
 596                                                             {
 597                                                               &#39;EntitlementType&#39; =&gt; &#39;Expired&#39;,
 598                                                               &#39;EndDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2009-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
 599                                                               &#39;Provider&#39; =&gt; &#39;&#39;,
 600                                                               &#39;StartDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2006-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
 601                                                               &#39;DaysLeft&#39; =&gt; &#39;0&#39;
 602                                                             },
 603                                                             {
 604                                                               &#39;EntitlementType&#39; =&gt; &#39;Expired&#39;,
 605                                                               &#39;EndDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2009-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
 606                                                               &#39;Provider&#39; =&gt; &#39;&#39;,
 607                                                               &#39;StartDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2006-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
 608                                                               &#39;DaysLeft&#39; =&gt; &#39;0&#39;
 609                                                             },
 610                                                             {
 611                                                               &#39;EntitlementType&#39; =&gt; &#39;Expired&#39;,
 612                                                               &#39;EndDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2007-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
 613                                                               &#39;Provider&#39; =&gt; &#39;&#39;,
 614                                                               &#39;StartDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2006-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
 615                                                               &#39;DaysLeft&#39; =&gt; &#39;0&#39;
 616                                                             }
 617                                                           ]
 618                                      },
 619                      &#39;AssetHeaderData&#39; =&gt; {
 620                                           &#39;SystemModel&#39; =&gt; &#39;GX620&#39;,
 621                                           &#39;ServiceTag&#39; =&gt; &#39;8DSGD2J&#39;,
 622                                           &#39;SystemShipDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2006-07-29T19:00:00-05:00&#39;,
 623                                           &#39;Buid&#39; =&gt; &#39;2323&#39;,
 624                                           &#39;Region&#39; =&gt; &#39;Europe&#39;,
 625                                           &#39;SystemID&#39; =&gt; &#39;PLX_GX620&#39;,
 626                                           &#39;SystemType&#39; =&gt; &#39;OptiPlex&#39;
 627                                         }
 628                    }
 629         };
 630 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 631
 632 &lt;p&gt;I have not been able to find any documentation from Dell about this
 633 service outside the
 634 &lt;a href=&quot;http://xserv.dell.com/services/assetservice.asmx?op=GetAssetInformation&quot;&gt;inline
 635 documentation&lt;/a&gt;, and according to
 636 &lt;a href=&quot;http://iboyd.net/index.php/2012/02/14/updated-dell-warranty-information-script/&quot;&gt;one
 637 comment&lt;/a&gt; it can have stability issues, but it is a lot better than
 638 scraping HTML pages. :)&lt;/p&gt;
 639
 640 &lt;p&gt;Wonder if HP and other server vendors have a similar service.  If
 641 you know of one, drop me an email. :)&lt;/p&gt;
 642 </description>
 643         </item>
 644
 645         <item>
 646                 <title>Veileder fra DIFI om publisering av offentlige data</title>
 647                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Veileder_fra_DIFI_om_publisering_av_offentlige_data.html</link>
 648                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Veileder_fra_DIFI_om_publisering_av_offentlige_data.html</guid>
 649                 <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jun 2012 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
 650                 <description>&lt;p&gt;På onsdag rakk jeg såvidt innom
 651 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.meetup.com/osloopendata/&quot;&gt;Oslo Open Data Forums&lt;/a&gt;
 652 møte, og fikk lagt hendene mine på DIFIs helt nye veileder
 653 &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://veileder.data.norge.no/&quot;&gt;Åpne data.  Del og skap
 654 verdier.  Veileder i tilgjengeliggjøring av offentlig data&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (også
 655 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.difi.no/filearchive/veileder-i-tilgjengeliggjoring-av-offentlig-data-web.pdf&quot;&gt;tilgjengelig
 656 som PDF&lt;/a&gt; fra DIFI).&lt;/p&gt;
 657
 658 &lt;p&gt;Veilederen er veldig bra, og nevner viktige problemstillinger og
 659 skisserer f.eks. både verdiskapningspotensialet og formatmulighetene
 660 som en bør ha i bakhodet når en publiserer offentlig informasjon på
 661 maskinlesbart format.  Kildekoden til veilederen er
 662 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/difi/veileder-opnedata&quot;&gt;tilgjengelig via
 663 github&lt;/a&gt;, og en kan rapportere tilbakemeldinger og forslag til
 664 forbedringer der (eller via epost og twitter for de som ønsker
 665 det).&lt;/p&gt;
 666
 667 &lt;p&gt;Det eneste jeg virkelig savnet i veilederen var omtale av
 668 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html&quot;&gt;w3cs
 669 stjerneklassifisering&lt;/a&gt; av åpne datakilder, som jeg tror ville være
 670 nyttige mentale knagger for de som vurderer å publisere sin
 671 informasjon på som åpne data.  Jeg har
 672 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/difi/veileder-opnedata/issues/1&quot;&gt;rapportert
 673 en github-bug&lt;/a&gt; om dette, så får vi se hvordan den blir behandlet.&lt;/p&gt;
 674
 675 &lt;p&gt;Det slo meg at det var veldig lite konkret i veilederen om valg av
 676 bruksvilkår ved publisering (aka lisens), men jeg er ikke sikker på om
 677 det hører hjemme der, da det er et vanskelig tema som kanskje heller
 678 hører hjemme i sin egen veileder.  Uansett, anbefaler alle å ta en
 679 titt på veilederen og sikre at alle offentlige etater en har kontakt
 680 med får en kopi.&lt;/p&gt;
 681 </description>
 682         </item>
 683
 684         <item>
 685                 <title>First monitor calibration using ColorHug</title>
 686                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_monitor_calibration_using_ColorHug.html</link>
 687                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_monitor_calibration_using_ColorHug.html</guid>
 688                 <pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
 689                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago my color calibration gadget
 690 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hughski.com/index.html&quot;&gt;ColorHug&lt;/a&gt; arrived in the
 691 mail, and I&#39;ve had a few days to test it.  As all my machines are
 692 running Debian Squeeze, where
 693 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/colorhug-client.html&quot;&gt;the
 694 calibration software&lt;/a&gt; is missing (it is present in Wheezy and Sid),
 695 I ran the calibration using the Fedora based live CD.  This worked
 696 just fine.  So far I have only done the quick calibration.  It was
 697 slow enough for me, so I will leave the more extensive calibration for
 698 another day.&lt;/p&gt;
 699
 700 &lt;p&gt;After calibration, I get a
 701 &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICC_profile&quot;&gt;ICC color
 702 profile&lt;/a&gt; file that can be passed to programs understanding such
 703 tools.  KDE do not seem to understand it out of the box, so I searched
 704 for command line tools to use to load the color profile into X.
 705 xcalib was the first one I found, and it seem to work fine for single
 706 monitor setups.  But for my video player, a laptop with a flat screen
 707 attached, it was unable to load the color profile for the correct
 708 monitor.  After searching a bit, I
 709 &lt;a href=&quot;http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1347896&quot;&gt;discovered&lt;/a&gt;
 710 that the dispwin tool from the argyll package would do what I wanted,
 711 and a simple&lt;/p&gt;
 712
 713 &lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 714 dispwin -d 1 profile.icc
 715 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 716
 717 &lt;p&gt;later I had the color profile loaded for the correct monitor.  The
 718 result was a bit more pink than I expected.  I guess I picked the
 719 wrong monitor type for the &quot;led&quot; monitor I got, but the result is good
 720 enough for now.&lt;/p&gt;
 721 </description>
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