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  14        <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23   <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/165_norske_overv__kningskamera_registert_s___langt_i_OpenStreetmap_org.html">165 norske overvåkningskamera registert så langt i OpenStreetmap.org</a></div>
  24   <div class="date">2010-12-24 11:20</div>
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  26 <p>Jeg flikket litt på OpenStreetmap.org i går, og oppdaget ved en
  27 tilfeldighet at det er en rekke noder som representerer
  28 overvåkningskamera som ikke blir med på kartet med overvåkningskamera
  29 i Norge som
  30 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kart_over_overv__kningskamera_i_Norge.html">jeg
  31 laget</a> for snart to år siden.  Fra før tok jeg med noder merket med
  32 man_made=surveillance, mens det er en rekke noder som kun er merket
  33 med highway=speed_camera.  Endret på koden som henter ut kameralisten
  34 fra OSM, og vips er antall kamera økt til 165.</p>
  35
  36 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.no/pere/surveillance-norway/">Kartet</a>
  37 er fortsatt ikke komplett, så hvis du ser noen kamera som mangler,
  38 legg inn ved å følge instruksene fra
  39 <a href="http://personvern.no/wiki/index.php/Kameraovervåkning">prosjektsiden</a>.
  40 Hvis du vet om noen flere måter å merke overvåkningskamera i OSM, ta
  41 kontakt slik at jeg kan få med også disse.</p>
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  47    Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>.
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  54   <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_test_if_a_laptop_is_working_with_Linux.html">How to test if a laptop is working with Linux</a></div>
  55   <div class="date">2010-12-22 14:55</div>
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  57 <p>The last few days I have spent at work here at the <a
  58 href="http://www.uio.no/">University of oslo</a> testing if the new
  59 batch of computers will work with Linux.  Every year for the last few
  60 years the university have organized shared bid of a few thousand
  61 computers, and this year HP won the bid.  Two different desktops and
  62 five different laptops are on the list this year.  We in the UNIX
  63 group want to know which one of these computers work well with RHEL
  64 and Ubuntu, the two Linux distributions we currently handle at the
  65 university.</p>
  66
  67 <p>My test method is simple, and I share it here to get feedback and
  68 perhaps inspire others to test hardware as well.  To test, I PXE
  69 install the OS version of choice, and log in as my normal user and run
  70 a few applications and plug in selected pieces of hardware.  When
  71 something fail, I make a note about this in the test matrix and move
  72 on.  If I have some spare time I try to report the bug to the OS
  73 vendor, but as I only have the machines for a short time, I rarely
  74 have the time to do this for all the problems I find.</p>
  75
  76 <p>Anyway, to get to the point of this post.  Here is the simple tests
  77 I perform on a new model.</p>
  78
  79 <ul>
  80
  81 <li>Is PXE installation working?  I'm testing with RHEL6, Ubuntu Lucid
  82 and Ubuntu Maverik at the moment.  If I feel like it, I also test with
  83 RHEL5 and Debian Edu/Squeeze.</li>
  84
  85 <li>Is X.org working?  If the graphical login screen show up after
  86 installation, X.org is working.</li>
  87
  88 <li>Is hardware accelerated OpenGL working?  Running glxgears (in
  89 package mesa-utils on Ubuntu) and writing down the frames per second
  90 reported by the program.</li>
  91
  92 <li>Is sound working?  With Gnome and KDE, a sound is played when
  93 logging in, and if I can hear this the test is successful.  If there
  94 are several audio exits on the machine, I try them all and check if
  95 the Gnome/KDE audio mixer can control where to send the sound.  I
  96 normally test this by playing
  97 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20101012-chef/ ">a HTML5
  98 video</a> in Firefox/Iceweasel.</li>
  99
 100 <li>Is the USB subsystem working?  I test this by plugging in a USB
 101 memory stick and see if Gnome/KDE notices this.</li>
 102
 103 <li>Is the CD/DVD player working?  I test this by inserting any CD/DVD
 104 I have lying around, and see if Gnome/KDE notices this.</li>
 105
 106 <li>Is any built in camera working?  Test using cheese, and see if a
 107 picture from the v4l device show up.</li>
 108
 109 <li>Is bluetooth working?  Use the Gnome/KDE browsing tool to see if
 110 any bluetooth devices are discovered.  In my office, I normally see a
 111 few.</li>
 112
 113 <li>For laptops, is the SD or Compaq Flash reader working.  I have
 114 memory modules lying around, and stick them in and see if Gnome/KDE
 115 notice this.</li>
 116
 117 <li>For laptops, is suspecd/hibernate working?  I'm testing if the
 118 special button work, and if the laptop continue to work after
 119 resume.</li>
 120
 121 <li>For laptops, is the extra buttons working, like audio level,
 122 adjusting background light, switching on/off external video output,
 123 switching on/off wifi, bluetooth, etc?  The set of buttons differ from
 124 laptop to laptop, so I just write down which are working and which are
 125 not.</li>
 126
 127 <li>Some laptops have smart card readers, finger print readers,
 128 acceleration sensors etc.  I rarely test these, as I do not know how
 129 to quickly test if they are working or not, so I only document their
 130 existence.</li>
 131
 132 </ul>
 133
 134 <p>By now I suspect you are really curious what the test results are
 135 for the HP machines I am testing.  I'm not done yet, so I will report
 136 the test results later.  For now I can report that HP 8100 Elite work
 137 fine, and hibernation fail with HP EliteBook 8440p on Ubuntu Lucid,
 138 and audio fail on RHEL6.  Ubuntu Maverik worked with 8440p.  As you
 139 can see, I have most machines left to test.  One interesting
 140 observation is that Ubuntu Lucid has almost twice the framerate than
 141 RHEL6 with glxgears.  No idea why.</p>
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 147    Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 154   <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_thoughts_on_BitCoins.html">Some thoughts on BitCoins</a></div>
 155   <div class="date">2010-12-11 15:10</div>
 156   <div class="body">
 157 <p>As I continue to explore
 158 <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin</a>, I've starting to wonder
 159 what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
 160 and regulations here in Norway.  Here are some random notes.</p>
 161
 162 <p>One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
 163 verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
 164 is known to everyone.  This means that if a BitCoin address has been
 165 published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
 166 possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
 167 that address.  There is even a web service to look at the details for
 168 all transactions.  There I can see that my address
 169 <a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a>
 170 have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
 171 <a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3">1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3</a>
 172 address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
 173 <a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt">1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt</A>
 174 of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far.  Thank you to each and
 175 every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
 176 fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
 177 address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
 178 generate and hand out a new address for each transaction.  I'm told
 179 there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
 180 organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
 181 themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.</p>
 182
 183 <p>In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
 184 regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
 185 without declaring it.  There are money laundering, tax and accounting
 186 laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
 187 If the Skolelinux foundation
 188 (<a href="http://linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">SLX
 189 Debian Labs</a>) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
 190 normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
 191 Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
 192 not, should everything or nothing be declared?  What exchange rate
 193 should be used when calculating taxes?  Would receivers have to pay
 194 income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
 195 BitCoin?  I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.</p>
 196
 197 <p>For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
 198 accepted by a lot of users.  It must be possible to get easy access to
 199 the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
 200 easy to spend it.  At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
 201 access to, but there are very few places to spend it.  I am not really
 202 a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
 203 so I wonder when my kind of shop would start accepting BitCoins.  I
 204 would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
 205 and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
 206 if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
 207 to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular.  I'm sure they
 208 will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
 209 probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
 210 believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
 211 currencies.</p>
 212
 213 <p>The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
 214 CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
 215 competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
 216 to see which one get the next lump of cash).  The "winner" get 50
 217 BitCoin when this happen.  Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
 218 join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
 219 by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
 220 and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
 221 BitCoins.  Check out
 222 <a href="http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/bitcoin-pool/">BitCoin Pool</a>
 223 if this sounds interesting.  I have not had time to try to set up a
 224 machine to participate there yet, but have seen that running on ones
 225 own for a few days have not yield any BitCoins througth mining
 226 yet.</p>
 227
 228 <p>Update 2010-12-15: Found an <a
 229 href="http://inertia.posterous.com/reply-to-the-underground-economist-why-bitcoi">interesting
 230 criticism</a> of bitcoin.  Not quite sure how valid it is, but thought
 231 it was interesting to read.  The arguments presented seem to be
 232 equally valid for gold, which was used as a currency for many years.</p>
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 238    Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
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 245   <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Pornoskannerne_p___flyplassene_bedrer_visst_ikke_sikkerheten.html">Pornoskannerne på flyplassene bedrer visst ikke sikkerheten</a></div>
 246   <div class="date">2010-12-11 10:45</div>
 247   <div class="body">
 248 <p>Via <a href="http://webmink.com/2010/12/10/links-for-2010-12-10/">en
 249 blogpost fra Simon Phipps i går</a>, fant jeg en referanse til
 250 <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/9/exposed-tsas-x-rated-scanner-fraud/">en
 251 artikkel i Washington Times</a> som igjen refererer til en artikkel i
 252 det fagfellevurderte tidsskriftet Journal of Transportation Security
 253 med tittelen
 254 "<a href="http://springerlink.com/content/g6620thk08679160/fulltext.html">An
 255 evaluation of airport x-ray backscatter units based on image
 256 characteristics</a>" som enkelt konstaterer at
 257 <a href="http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/?a=2389&c=124">pornoscannerne</a>
 258 som kler av reisende på flyplasser ikke er i stand til å avsløre det
 259 produsenten og amerikanske myndigheter sier de skal avsløre.  Kort
 260 sagt, de bedrer ikke sikkerheten.  Reisende må altså la ansatte på
 261 flyplasser <a href="http://www.thousandsstandingaround.org/">se dem
 262 nakne eller la seg beføle i skrittet</a> uten grunn.  Jeg vil
 263 fortsette å nekte å bruke disse pornoskannerne, unngå flyplasser der
 264 de er tatt i bruk, og reise med andre transportmidler enn fly hvis jeg
 265 kan.</p>
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 271    Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
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 278   <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Now_accepting_bitcoins___anonymous_and_distributed_p2p_crypto_money.html">Now accepting bitcoins - anonymous and distributed p2p crypto-money</a></div>
 279   <div class="date">2010-12-10 08:20</div>
 280   <div class="body">
 281 <p>With this weeks lawless
 282 <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/06/wikileaks/index.html">governmental
 283 attacks</a> on Wikileak and
 284 <a href="http://www.salon.com/technology/dan_gillmor/2010/12/06/war_on_speech">free
 285 speech</a>, it has become obvious that PayPal, visa and mastercard can
 286 not be trusted to handle money transactions.
 287 A blog post from
 288 <a href="http://webmink.com/2010/12/06/now-accepting-bitcoin/">Simon
 289 Phipps on bitcoin</a> reminded me about a project that a friend of
 290 mine mentioned earlier.  I decided to follow Simon's example, and get
 291 involved with <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin</a>.  I got
 292 some help from my friend to get it all running, and he even handed me
 293 some bitcoins to get started.  I even donated a few bitcoins to Simon
 294 for helping me remember BitCoin.</p>
 295
 296 <p>So, what is bitcoins, you probably wonder?  It is a digital
 297 crypto-currency, decentralised and handled using peer-to-peer
 298 networks.  It allows anonymous transactions and prohibits central
 299 control over the transactions, making it impossible for governments
 300 and companies alike to block donations and other transactions.  The
 301 source is free software, and while the key dependency wxWidgets 2.9
 302 for the graphical user interface is missing in Debian, the command
 303 line client builds just fine.  Hopefully Jonas
 304 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/578157">will get the package into
 305 Debian</a> soon.</p>
 306
 307 <p>Bitcoins can be converted to other currencies, like USD and EUR.
 308 There are <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/trade">companies accepting
 309 bitcoins</a> when selling services and goods, and there are even
 310 currency "stock" markets where the exchange rate is decided.  There
 311 are not many users so far, but the concept seems promising.  If you
 312 want to get started and lack a friend with any bitcoins to spare,
 313 you can even get
 314 <a href="https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/">some for free</a> (0.05
 315 bitcoin at the time of writing).  Use
 316 <a href="http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/">BitcoinWatch</a> to keep an eye
 317 on the current exchange rates.</p>
 318
 319 <p>As an experiment, I have decided to set up bitcoind on one of my
 320 machines.  If you want to support my activity, please send Bitcoin
 321 donations to the address
 322 <b>15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</b>.  Thank you!</p>
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 328    Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
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 335   <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Martin_Bekkelund__En_stille_b__nn_om_Datalagringsdirektivet.html">Martin Bekkelund: En stille bønn om Datalagringsdirektivet</a></div>
 336   <div class="date">2010-12-09 21:25</div>
 337   <div class="body">
 338 <p><a href="http://www.bekkelund.net/">Martin Bekkelund</a> ved
 339 <a href="http://www.friprog.no/">friprog-senteret</a> har skrevet
 340 følgende
 341 <a href="http://www.bekkelund.net/2010/12/09/en-stille-bonn/">korte
 342 oppsummering</a> rundt datalagringsdirektivet, som jeg videreformidler
 343 her.</p>
 344
 345 <p><blockquote><strong>Det pågår i disse dager en intens diskusjon om
 346 innføring av Datalagringsdirektivet (<acronym
 347 title="Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD</acronym>) i norsk rett. Kanskje
 348 har du gjort deg opp en mening, kanskje er du usikker. I begge
 349 tilfeller ber jeg deg lese videre.</strong></p>
 350
 351 <p>Samtlige fagmiljøer, både i Norge og EU, har konkludert med at
 352 <acronym title="Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD</acronym> ikke bør
 353 innføres på nåværende tidspunkt. Den tekniske kvaliteten på direktivet
 354 er dårlig, det griper uforholdsmessig inn i personvernet, det har
 355 store mangler og viktige spørsmål som hvem som skal ha tilgang og
 356 hvordan data skal lagres er fortsatt uavklart.</p>
 357
 358 <ul>
 359 <li><a href="http://ikt-norge.no/norge-kan-slippe-datalagringsdirektivet/">EU-ekspertene sier</a> at konsekvensene av å benytte vetoretten er minimale</li>
 360 <li><a href="http://www.regjeringen.no/pages/2281080/Deninternasjonalejuristkommisjon.pdf">Juristene påpeker</a> at direktivet er i strid med EMK</li>
 361 <li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/12/06/kultur/debatt/kronikk/dld/personvern/14594699/">Datatilsynet sier</a> direktivet får store konsekvenser for personvernet og at direktivet er irreversibelt</li>
 362 <li><a href="http://www.bekkelund.net/?s=dld">Teknologene sier</a> at sikker lagring ikke er mulig, at det er svært enkelt å omgå og mulig å manipulere data og produsere falske beviser</li>
 363 <li><a href="http://www.regjeringen.no/pages/2281080/NJ_247460_1_P.pdf">Pressen sier</a> nei av hensyn til kildevernet</li>
 364 <li>Det er store <a href="http://tetzschner.blogspot.com/2010/03/den-tyske-forfatningsdomstol.html">interne</a> <a href="http://stoppdld.no/2010/03/02/datalagring-stoppet-av-tysk-forfatningsdomstol/">stridigheter</a> i EU. Blant annet har den tyske forfatningsdomstolen funnet at måten <acronym title="Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD</acronym> er innført på er i strid med tysk grunnlov</li>
 365 <li>Alle de store <a href="http://www.bekkelund.net/2010/12/08/lokasjonsdata-og-datalagringsdirektivet/">operatørene og tilbyderne sier nei</a>, av tekniske og personvernmessige årsaker</li>
 366 </ul>
 367
 368 <p>Jeg liker å tro at jeg er en hyggelig fyr. Jeg har et rent
 369 rulleblad, og med unntak av to fartsbøter har jeg aldri vært en byrde
 370 for samfunnet. Det akter jeg å fortsette med. Det er mange som meg,
 371 lovlydige, pliktoppfyllende borgere som aldri vil utgjøre en trussel
 372 mot noe som helst. Vi synes derfor det er trist og sårende at all vår
 373 atferd skal overvåkes døgnkontinuerlig.</p>
 374
 375 <p><strong>Understøttet av faglige vurderinger kan du trygt si nei til
 376 <acronym title="Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD</acronym>.</strong></p>
 377
 378 <p><a href="http://www.bekkelund.net/kontakt/">Ta kontakt med meg</a>
 379 hvis du har spørsmål om <acronym
 380 title="Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD</acronym>, uansett hva det måtte
 381 gjelde.</p>
 382
 383 <p class="info">Denne teksten er å anse som <a
 384 href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/"><em>Public
 385 Domain</em></a>. Spre den videre til alle som kan ha nytte av
 386 den!</p>
 387 </blockquote></p>
 388
 389 <p>Siste <a href="http://www.nettavisen.no/it/article3043918.ece">melding
 390 fra Nettavisen</a> er at regjeringen planlegger å fremme sitt forslag
 391 til implementering av datalagringsdirektivet i morgen, i ly av
 392 fredprisutdelingen for å få minst mulig pressedekning om saken.  Vi
 393 får snart se om det stemmer.</p>
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 399    Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>.
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 406   <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Student_group_continue_the_work_on_my_Reprap_3D_printer.html">Student group continue the work on my Reprap 3D printer</a></div>
 407   <div class="date">2010-12-09 19:30</div>
 408   <div class="body">
 409 <p>A few days ago, I was introduces to some students in the robot
 410 student assosiation <a href="http://www.robotica.no/">Robotica
 411 Osloensis</a> at the University of Oslo where I work, who planned to
 412 get their own 3D printer.  They wanted to learn from me based on my
 413 work in the area.  After having a short lunch meeting with them, I
 414 offered them to borrow my reprap kit, as I never had time to complete
 415 the build and this seem unlike to change any time soon.  I look
 416 forward to see how this goes.  This monday their volunteer driver
 417 picked up my kit and drove it to their lab, and tomorrow I am told the
 418 last exam is over so they can start work on getting the 3D printer
 419 operational.</p>
 420
 421 <p>The robotic group have already build several robots on their own,
 422 and seem capable of getting the reprap operational.  I really look
 423 forward to being able to print all the cool 3D designs published on
 424 <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/">Thingiverse</a>.  I even got
 425 some 3D scans I got made during Dagen@IFI when one of the groups at
 426 the computer science department at the university demonstrated their
 427 very cool 3D scanner.</p>
 428 </div>
 429   <div class="tags">
 430
 431
 432
 433    Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/reprap">reprap</a>.
 434
 435   </div>
 436  </div>
 437  <div class="padding"></div>
 438
 439  <div class="entry">
 440   <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_development_gathering_and_General_Assembly_for_FRiSK.html">Debian Edu development gathering and General Assembly for FRiSK</a></div>
 441   <div class="date">2010-11-29 18:40</div>
 442   <div class="body">
 443 <p>On friday, the first Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 444 <a href="http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering/2010-12-03-05-Oslo">development
 445 gathering</a> in a long time take place here in Oslo, Norway.  I
 446 really look forward to seeing all the good people working on the
 447 Squeeze release.  The gathering is open for everyone interested in
 448 learning more about Debian Edu / Skolelinux.</p>
 449
 450 <p>On Saturday, the Norwegian member organization taking care of
 451 organizing these development gatherings, Fri Programvare i Skolen,
 452 will hold its
 453 <a href="http://friprogramvareiskolen.no/Genfors/2010">General Assembly
 454 for 2010</a>.  Membership is open for all, and currently there are 388
 455 people registered as members.  Last year 32 members cast their vote in
 456 the memberdb based election system.  I hope more people find time to
 457 vote this year.</p>
 458 </div>
 459   <div class="tags">
 460
 461
 462
 463    Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
 464
 465   </div>
 466  </div>
 467  <div class="padding"></div>
 468
 469  <div class="entry">
 470   <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html">Why isn't Debian Edu using VLC?</a></div>
 471   <div class="date">2010-11-27 11:30</div>
 472   <div class="body">
 473 <p>In the latest issue of Linux Journal, the readers choices were
 474 presented, and the winner among the multimedia player were VLC.
 475 Personally, I like VLC, and it is my player of choice when I first try
 476 to play a video file or stream.  Only if VLC fail will I drag out
 477 gmplayer to see if it can do better.  The reason is mostly the failure
 478 model and trust.  When VLC fail, it normally pop up a error message
 479 reporting the problem.  When mplayer fail, it normally segfault or
 480 just hangs.  The latter failure mode drain my trust in the program.<p>
 481
 482 <p>But even if VLC is my player of choice, we have choosen to use
 483 mplayer in <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian
 484 Edu/Skolelinux</a>.  The reason is simple.  We need a good browser
 485 plugin to play web videos seamlessly, and the VLC browser plugin is
 486 not very good.  For example, it lack in-line control buttons, so there
 487 is no way for the user to pause the video.  Also, when I
 488 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia">last
 489 tested the browser plugins</a> available in Debian, the VLC plugin
 490 failed on several video pages where mplayer based plugins worked.  If
 491 the browser plugin for VLC was as good as the gecko-mediaplayer
 492 package (which uses mplayer), we would switch.</P>
 493
 494 <p>While VLC is a good player, its user interface is slightly
 495 annoying.  The most annoying feature is its inconsistent use of
 496 keyboard shortcuts.  When the player is in full screen mode, its
 497 shortcuts are different from when it is playing the video in a window.
 498 For example, space only work as pause when in full screen mode.  I
 499 wish it had consisten shortcuts and that space also would work when in
 500 window mode.  Another nice shortcut in gmplayer is [enter] to restart
 501 the current video.  It is very nice when playing short videos from the
 502 web and want to restart it when new people arrive to have a look at
 503 what is going on.</p>
 504 </div>
 505   <div class="tags">
 506
 507
 508
 509    Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
 510
 511   </div>
 512  </div>
 513  <div class="padding"></div>
 514
 515  <div class="entry">
 516   <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/DND_hedrer_overv__kning_av_barn_med_Rosingsprisen.html">DND hedrer overvåkning av barn med Rosingsprisen</a></div>
 517   <div class="date">2010-11-23 14:15</div>
 518   <div class="body">
 519 <p>Jeg registrerer med vond smak i munnen at Den Norske Dataforening
 520 <a
 521 href="http://www.dataforeningen.no/hedret-med-rosingprisen.4849070-133913.html">hedrer
 522 overvåkning av barn med Rosingsprisen for kreativitet i år</a>.  Jeg
 523 er glad jeg nå er meldt ut av DND.</p>
 524
 525 <p>Å elektronisk overvåke sine barn er ikke å gjøre dem en tjeneste,
 526 men et overgrep mot individer i utvikling som bør læres opp til å ta
 527 egne valg.</p>
 528
 529 <p>For å sitere Datatilsynets nye leder, Bjørn Erik Thon, i
 530 <a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article174262.ece">et intervju
 531 med Computerworld Norge</A>:</p>
 532
 533 <p><blockquote>
 534 - For alle som har barn, meg selv inkludert, er førstetanken at det
 535 hadde vært fint å vite hvor barnet sitt er til enhver tid. Men ungene
 536 har ikke godt av det. De er små individer som skal søke rundt og finne
 537 sine små gjemmesteder og utvide horisonten, uten at foreldrene ser dem
 538 i kortene. Det kan være fristende, men jeg ville ikke gått inn i
 539 dette.
 540 </blockquote></p>
 541
 542 <p>Det er skremmende å se at DND mener en tjeneste som legger opp til
 543 slike overgrep bør hedres.  Å flytte oppveksten for barn inn i en
 544 virtuell
 545 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon">Panopticon</a> er et
 546 grovt overgrep og vil gjøre skade på barnenes utvikling, og foreldre
 547 burde tenke seg godt om før de gir etter for sine instinkter her.</p>
 548
 549 <p>Blipper-tjenesten får meg til å tenke på bøkene til
 550 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Twelve_Hawks">John Twelve
 551 Hawks</a>, som forbilledlig beskriver hvordan et totalitært
 552 overvåkningssamfunn bygges sakte men sikkert rundt oss, satt sammen av
 553 gode intensjoner og manglende bevissthet om hvilke prinsipper et
 554 liberalt demokrati er fundamentert på.  Jeg har hatt stor glede av å
 555 lese alle de tre bøkene.</p>
 556 </div>
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 558
 559
 560
 561    Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
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 575 <h2>Archive</h2>
 576 <ul>
 577
 578 <li>2010
 579 <ul>
 580
 581 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
 582
 583 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
 584
 585 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/03/">March (3)</a></li>
 586
 587 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/04/">April (3)</a></li>
 588
 589 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/05/">May (9)</a></li>
 590
 591 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/06/">June (14)</a></li>
 592
 593 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/07/">July (12)</a></li>
 594
 595 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/08/">August (13)</a></li>
 596
 597 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
 598
 599 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
 600
 601 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
 602
 603 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (7)</a></li>
 604
 605 </ul></li>
 606
 607 <li>2009
 608 <ul>
 609
 610 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
 611
 612 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
 613
 614 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/03/">March (12)</a></li>
 615
 616 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/04/">April (10)</a></li>
 617
 618 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/05/">May (9)</a></li>
 619
 620 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/06/">June (3)</a></li>
 621
 622 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/07/">July (4)</a></li>
 623
 624 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
 625
 626 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
 627
 628 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
 629
 630 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
 631
 632 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
 633
 634 </ul></li>
 635
 636 <li>2008
 637 <ul>
 638
 639 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
 640
 641 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
 642
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 665
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 668  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (1)</a></li>
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 679
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 681
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 691
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