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  26  <a href="../../The_sorry_state_of_multimedia_browser_plugins_in_Debian.html">The sorry state of multimedia browser plugins in Debian</a>
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  29   2008-11-25 00:10
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  34 <p>Recently I have spent some time evaluating the multimedia browser
  35 plugins available in Debian Lenny, to see which one we should use by
  36 default in Debian Edu.  We need an embedded video playing plugin with
  37 control buttons to pause or stop the video, and capable of streaming
  38 all the multimedia content available on the web.  The test results and
  39 notes are available on
  40 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia">the
  41 Debian wiki</a>.  I was surprised how few of the plugins are able to
  42 fill this need.  My personal video player favorite, VLC, has a really
  43 bad plugin which fail on a lot of the test pages.  A lot of the MIME
  44 types I would expect to work with any free software player (like
  45 video/ogg), just do not work.  And simple formats like the
  46 audio/x-mplegurl format (m3u playlists), just isn't supported by the
  47 totem and vlc plugins.  I hope the situation will improve soon.  No
  48 wonder sites use the proprietary Adobe flash to play video.</p>
  49
  50 <p>For Lenny, we seem to end up with the mplayer plugin.  It seem to
  51 be the only one fitting our needs. :/</p>
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  58   Tags: <a href="../../tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="../../tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="../../tags/english">english</a>, <a href="../../tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="../../tags/web">web</a>.
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  66  <a href="../../When_web_browser_developers_make_a_video_player___.html">When web browser developers make a video player...</a>
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  69   2009-01-17 18:50
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  74 <p>As part of the work we do in <a href="http://www.nuug.no">NUUG</a>
  75 to publish video recordings of our monthly presentations, we provide a
  76 page with embedded video for easy access to the recording.  Putting a
  77 good set of HTML tags together to get working embedded video in all
  78 browsers and across all operating systems is not easy.  I hope this
  79 will become easier when the &lt;video&gt; tag is implemented in all
  80 browsers, but I am not sure.  We provide the recordings in several
  81 formats, MPEG1, Ogg Theora, H.264 and Quicktime, and want the
  82 browser/media plugin to pick one it support and use it to play the
  83 recording, using whatever embed mechanism the browser understand.
  84 There is at least four different tags to use for this, the new HTML5
  85 &lt;video&gt; tag, the &lt;object&gt; tag, the &lt;embed&gt; tag and
  86 the &lt;applet&gt; tag.  All of these take a lot of options, and
  87 finding the best options is a major challenge.</p>
  88
  89 <p>I just tested the experimental Opera browser available from <a
  90 href="http://labs.opera.com">labs.opera.com</a>, to see how it handled
  91 a &lt;video&gt; tag with a few video sources and no extra attributes.
  92 I was not very impressed.  The browser start by fetching a picture
  93 from the video stream.  Not sure if it is the first frame, but it is
  94 definitely very early in the recording.  So far, so good. Next,
  95 instead of streaming the 76 MiB video file, it start to download all
  96 of it, but do not start to play the video.  This mean I have to wait
  97 for several minutes for the downloading to finish.  When the download
  98 is done, the playing of the video do not start!  Waiting for the
  99 download, but I do not get to see the video?  Some testing later, I
 100 discover that I have to add the controls="true" attribute to be able
 101 to get a play button to pres to start the video.  Adding
 102 autoplay="true" did not help.  I sure hope this is a misfeature of the
 103 test version of Opera, and that future implementations of the
 104 &lt;video&gt; tag will stream recordings by default, or at least start
 105 playing when the download is done.</p>
 106
 107 <p>The test page I used (since changed to add more attributes) is
 108 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20090113-foredrag-om-foredrag/">available
 109 from the nuug site</a>.  Will have to test it with the new Firefox
 110 too.</p>
 111
 112 <p>In the test process, I discovered a missing feature.  I was unable
 113 to find a way to get the URL of the playing video out of Opera, so I
 114 am not quite sure it picked the Ogg Theora version of the video.  I
 115 sure hope it was using the announced Ogg Theora support. :)</p>
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 122   Tags: <a href="../../tags/english">english</a>, <a href="../../tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="../../tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="../../tags/video">video</a>, <a href="../../tags/web">web</a>.
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 130  <a href="../../Fildeling_er_lovlig___ulovlig_fildeling_er_ulovlig.html">Fildeling er lovlig - ulovlig fildeling er ulovlig</a>
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 132  <div class="date">
 133   2009-04-17 20:00
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 137
 138 <p>Jeg hadde glede av å overvære FADs lansering av
 139 <a href="http://www.deltemeninger.no/">Debattsentralen
 140 deltemeninger.no</a> under Go Open 2009, og må si jeg ble skuffet over
 141 en kommentar fra podiet om ulovlig fildeling.  Fikk ikke med meg hvem
 142 som holdt innlegget, men det startet med å snakke om ulovlig fildeling
 143 og gikk så over til å snakke om fildeling som om fildeling i seg er
 144 ulovlig.  Intet er lengre fra sannheten.  Fildeling er en nyttig
 145 teknologi som benyttes av NRK, Debian, Ubuntu, NUUG og andre for
 146 distribusjon av filer.  Det er ingenting med denne fildelingen som
 147 gjør den ulovlig.  Fildeling er i seg selv en fullt ut lovlig
 148 teknologisk anvendelse.  Noe fildeling er ulovlig, og noe er lovlig.
 149 De som tror at fildeling er ulovlig har misforstått grovt.  Hvorvidt
 150 den er ulovlig kommer jo an på hvem som har opphavsretten til filene
 151 som deles og hvilke bruksbegrensninger som gjelder for filene.  En
 152 rekke filer er lagt ut av rettighetsinnehaver for deling på Internet,
 153 og fildeling av slike filer er fullt ut lovlig.</p>
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 160   Tags: <a href="../../tags/fildeling">fildeling</a>, <a href="../../tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="../../tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="../../tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="../../tags/web">web</a>.
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 168  <a href="../../Nasjonalbiblioteket_legger_ut_b__ker_p___web.html">Nasjonalbiblioteket legger ut bøker på web</a>
 169  </div>
 170  <div class="date">
 171   2009-04-23 19:40
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 175
 176 <p><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/kul_und/litteratur/article3042382.ece">Aftenposten
 177 melder</a> at
 178 <a href="http://www.nb.no/aktuelt/50_000_norske_boeker_gratis_tilgjengelig_paa_nett_helt_lovlig">nasjonalbiblioteket
 179 og Kopinor har gjort en avtale</a> som gjør at eldre bøker kan gjøres
 180 digitalt tilgjengelig fra nasjonalbiblioteket mot at Kopinor får 56
 181 øre for hver side som legges ut.  Utvalget er litt merkelig: 1790-,
 182 1890- og 1990-tallet.  Jeg synes det er absurd hvis det er slik at
 183 Kopinor skal ha betalt for utlegging av bøker som ikke lenger er
 184 beskyttet av opphavsretten.  Jeg antar her at det er mer enn 90 år
 185 siden forfatterne av bøker som ble publisert 1790-1799 døde, slik at
 186 disse bøkene er falt i det fri og enhver kan kopiere så mye de vil fra
 187 dem uten å bryte opphavsrettsloven.  Bruk av slike verk har ikke
 188 Kopinor noe med å gjøre.  Jeg håper jeg har misforstått.
 189 <a href="http://www.nb.no/aktuelt/no_er_vi_i_gang_med_aa_digitalisere_samlingane_vaare_og_formidle_digitalt">En
 190 melding fra nasjonalbiblioteket i 2007</a> tyder på at tekster i det
 191 fri ikke trenger avtale med Kopinor.</p>
 192
 193 <p>Et annet problem er at bøkene kun legges ut som bildefiler, noe som
 194 vil gjøre at søketjenester ikke vil finne disse bøkene når en søker
 195 etter fragmenter i teksten.  En risikerer dermed at de blir liggende
 196 på en slik måte at folk som bruker Google ikke finner dem.</p>
 197
 198 <p>Da skulle jeg heller sett at nasjonalbiblioteket gjorde alvor av
 199 sin aprilspøk, og la ut bøkene som faller i det fri
 200 fortløpende.</p>
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 208   Tags: <a href="../../tags/fildeling">fildeling</a>, <a href="../../tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="../../tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="../../tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="../../tags/web">web</a>.
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 215  <div class="title">
 216  <a href="../../Relative_popularity_of_document_formats__MS_Office_vs__ODF_.html">Relative popularity of document formats (MS Office vs. ODF)</a>
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 218  <div class="date">
 219   2009-08-12 15:50
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 223
 224 <p>Just for fun, I did a search right now on Google for a few file ODF
 225 and MS Office based formats (not to be mistaken for ISO or ECMA
 226 OOXML), to get an idea of their relative usage.  I searched using
 227 'filetype:odt' and equvalent terms, and got these results:</P>
 228
 229 <table>
 230 <tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
 231 <tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:282000</td> <td>docx:308000</td></tr>
 232 <tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:75600</td> <td>pptx:183000</td></tr>
 233 <tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:26500     </td> <td>xlsx:145000</td></tr>
 234 </table>
 235
 236 <p>Next, I added a 'site:no' limit to get the numbers for Norway, and
 237 got these numbers:</p>
 238
 239 <table>
 240 <tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
 241 <tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:2480 </td> <td>docx:4460</td></tr>
 242 <tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:299   </td> <td>pptx:741</td></tr>
 243 <tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:187       </td> <td>xlsx:372</td></tr>
 244 </table>
 245
 246 <p>I wonder how these numbers change over time.</p>
 247
 248 <p>I am aware of Google returning different results and numbers based
 249 on where the search is done, so I guess these numbers will differ if
 250 they are conduced in another country.  Because of this, I did the same
 251 search from a machine in California, USA, a few minutes after the
 252 search done from a machine here in Norway.</p>
 253
 254
 255 <table>
 256 <tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
 257 <tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:129000</td> <td>docx:308000</td></tr>
 258 <tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:44200</td> <td>pptx:93900</td></tr>
 259 <tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:26500     </td> <td>xlsx:82400</td></tr>
 260 </table>
 261
 262 <p>And with 'site:no':
 263
 264 <table>
 265 <tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
 266 <tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:2480</td> <td>docx:3410</td></tr>
 267 <tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:175</td> <td>pptx:604</td></tr>
 268 <tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:186       </td> <td>xlsx:296</td></tr>
 269 </table>
 270
 271 <p>Interesting difference, not sure what to conclude from these
 272 numbers.</p>
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 279   Tags: <a href="../../tags/english">english</a>, <a href="../../tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="../../tags/standard">standard</a>, <a href="../../tags/web">web</a>.
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 285 <div class="entry">
 286  <div class="title">
 287  <a href="../../Great_book___Content__Selected_Essays_on_Technology__Creativity__Copyright__and_the_Future_of_the_Future_.html">Great book: "Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future"</a>
 288  </div>
 289  <div class="date">
 290   2010-04-19 17:10
 291  </div>
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 293  <div class="body">
 294
 295 <p>The last few weeks i have had the pleasure of reading a
 296 thought-provoking collection of essays by Cory Doctorow, on topics
 297 touching copyright, virtual worlds, the future of man when the
 298 conscience mind can be duplicated into a computer and many more. The
 299 book titled "Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity,
 300 Copyright, and the Future of the Future" is available with few
 301 restrictions on the web, for example from
 302 <a href="http://craphound.com/content/">his own site</a>. I read the
 303 epub-version from
 304 <a href="http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2883">feedbooks</a> using
 305 <a href="http://www.fbreader.org/">fbreader</a> and my N810. I
 306 strongly recommend this book.</p>
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