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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from June 2012</title>
   5                 <description>Entries from June 2012</description>
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  10                 <title>Veileder fra DIFI om publisering av offentlige data</title>
  11                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Veileder_fra_DIFI_om_publisering_av_offentlige_data.html</link>
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  13                 <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jun 2012 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;På onsdag rakk jeg såvidt innom
  15 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.meetup.com/osloopendata/&quot;&gt;Oslo Open Data Forums&lt;/a&gt;
  16 møte, og fikk lagt hendene mine på DIFIs helt nye veileder
  17 &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://veileder.data.norge.no/&quot;&gt;Åpne data.  Del og skap
  18 verdier.  Veileder i tilgjengeliggjøring av offentlig data&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (også
  19 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.difi.no/filearchive/veileder-i-tilgjengeliggjoring-av-offentlig-data-web.pdf&quot;&gt;tilgjengelig
  20 som PDF&lt;/a&gt; fra DIFI).&lt;/p&gt;
  21
  22 &lt;p&gt;Veilederen er veldig bra, og nevner viktige problemstillinger og
  23 skisserer f.eks. både verdiskapningspotensialet og formatmulighetene
  24 som en bør ha i bakhodet når en publiserer offentlig informasjon på
  25 maskinlesbart format.  Kildekoden til veilederen er
  26 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/difi/veileder-opnedata&quot;&gt;tilgjengelig via
  27 github&lt;/a&gt;, og en kan rapportere tilbakemeldinger og forslag til
  28 forbedringer der (eller via epost og twitter for de som ønsker
  29 det).&lt;/p&gt;
  30
  31 &lt;p&gt;Det eneste jeg virkelig savnet i veilederen var omtale av
  32 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html&quot;&gt;w3cs
  33 stjerneklassifisering&lt;/a&gt; av åpne datakilder, som jeg tror ville være
  34 nyttige mentale knagger for de som vurderer å publisere sin
  35 informasjon på som åpne data.  Jeg har
  36 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/difi/veileder-opnedata/issues/1&quot;&gt;rapportert
  37 en github-bug&lt;/a&gt; om dette, så får vi se hvordan den blir behandlet.&lt;/p&gt;
  38
  39 &lt;p&gt;Det slo meg at det var veldig lite konkret i veilederen om valg av
  40 bruksvilkår ved publisering (aka lisens), men jeg er ikke sikker på om
  41 det hører hjemme der, da det er et vanskelig tema som kanskje heller
  42 hører hjemme i sin egen veileder.  Uansett, anbefaler alle å ta en
  43 titt på veilederen og sikre at alle offentlige etater en har kontakt
  44 med får en kopi.&lt;/p&gt;
  45 </description>
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  49                 <title>SOAP based webservice from Dell to check server support status</title>
  50                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html</link>
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  52                 <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
  53                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few years ago I wrote
  54 &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
  55 to extract support status&lt;/a&gt; for your Dell and HP servers.  Recently
  56 I have learned from colleges here at the
  57 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uio.no/&quot;&gt;University of Oslo&lt;/a&gt; that Dell have
  58 made this even easier, by providing a SOAP based web service.  Given
  59 the service tag, one can now query the Dell servers and get machine
  60 readable information about the support status.  This perl code
  61 demonstrate how to do it:&lt;/p&gt;
  62
  63 &lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
  64 use strict;
  65 use warnings;
  66 use SOAP::Lite;
  67 use Data::Dumper;
  68 my $GUID = &#39;11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111&#39;;
  69 my $App = &#39;test&#39;;
  70 my $servicetag = $ARGV[0] or die &quot;Please supply a servicetag. $!\n&quot;;
  71 my ($deal, $latest, @dates);
  72 my $s = SOAP::Lite
  73     -&gt; uri(&#39;http://support.dell.com/WebServices/&#39;)
  74     -&gt; on_action( sub { join &#39;&#39;, @_ } )
  75     -&gt; proxy(&#39;http://xserv.dell.com/services/assetservice.asmx&#39;)
  76     ;
  77 my $a = $s-&gt;GetAssetInformation(
  78     SOAP::Data-&gt;name(&#39;guid&#39;)-&gt;value($GUID)-&gt;type(&#39;&#39;),
  79     SOAP::Data-&gt;name(&#39;applicationName&#39;)-&gt;value($App)-&gt;type(&#39;&#39;),
  80     SOAP::Data-&gt;name(&#39;serviceTags&#39;)-&gt;value($servicetag)-&gt;type(&#39;&#39;),
  81 );
  82 print Dumper($a -&gt; result) ;
  83 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  84
  85 &lt;p&gt;The output can look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
  86
  87 &lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
  88 $VAR1 = {
  89           &#39;Asset&#39; =&gt; {
  90                      &#39;Entitlements&#39; =&gt; {
  91                                        &#39;EntitlementData&#39; =&gt; [
  92                                                             {
  93                                                               &#39;EntitlementType&#39; =&gt; &#39;Expired&#39;,
  94                                                               &#39;EndDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2009-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
  95                                                               &#39;Provider&#39; =&gt; &#39;&#39;,
  96                                                               &#39;StartDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2006-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
  97                                                               &#39;DaysLeft&#39; =&gt; &#39;0&#39;
  98                                                             },
  99                                                             {
 100                                                               &#39;EntitlementType&#39; =&gt; &#39;Expired&#39;,
 101                                                               &#39;EndDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2009-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
 102                                                               &#39;Provider&#39; =&gt; &#39;&#39;,
 103                                                               &#39;StartDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2006-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
 104                                                               &#39;DaysLeft&#39; =&gt; &#39;0&#39;
 105                                                             },
 106                                                             {
 107                                                               &#39;EntitlementType&#39; =&gt; &#39;Expired&#39;,
 108                                                               &#39;EndDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2007-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
 109                                                               &#39;Provider&#39; =&gt; &#39;&#39;,
 110                                                               &#39;StartDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2006-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
 111                                                               &#39;DaysLeft&#39; =&gt; &#39;0&#39;
 112                                                             }
 113                                                           ]
 114                                      },
 115                      &#39;AssetHeaderData&#39; =&gt; {
 116                                           &#39;SystemModel&#39; =&gt; &#39;GX620&#39;,
 117                                           &#39;ServiceTag&#39; =&gt; &#39;8DSGD2J&#39;,
 118                                           &#39;SystemShipDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2006-07-29T19:00:00-05:00&#39;,
 119                                           &#39;Buid&#39; =&gt; &#39;2323&#39;,
 120                                           &#39;Region&#39; =&gt; &#39;Europe&#39;,
 121                                           &#39;SystemID&#39; =&gt; &#39;PLX_GX620&#39;,
 122                                           &#39;SystemType&#39; =&gt; &#39;OptiPlex&#39;
 123                                         }
 124                    }
 125         };
 126 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 127
 128 &lt;p&gt;I have not been able to find any documentation from Dell about this
 129 service outside the
 130 &lt;a href=&quot;http://xserv.dell.com/services/assetservice.asmx?op=GetAssetInformation&quot;&gt;inline
 131 documentation&lt;/a&gt;, and according to
 132 &lt;a href=&quot;http://iboyd.net/index.php/2012/02/14/updated-dell-warranty-information-script/&quot;&gt;one
 133 comment&lt;/a&gt; it can have stability issues, but it is a lot better than
 134 scraping HTML pages. :)&lt;/p&gt;
 135
 136 &lt;p&gt;Wonder if HP and other server vendors have a similar service.  If
 137 you know of one, drop me an email. :)&lt;/p&gt;
 138 </description>
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 142                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Mike Gabriel</title>
 143                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html</link>
 144                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html</guid>
 145                 <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jun 2012 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
 146                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Back in 2010, Mike Gabriel showed up on the
 147 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
 148 mailing list.  He quickly proved to be a valuable developer, and
 149 thanks to his tireless effort we now have Kerberos integrated into the
 150 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
 151 Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; version.&lt;/p&gt;
 152
 153 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 154
 155 &lt;p&gt;My name is Mike Gabriel, I am 38 years old and live near Kiel,
 156 Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. I live together with a wonderful partner
 157 (Angela Fuß) and two own children and two bonus children (contributed
 158 by Angela).&lt;/p&gt;
 159
 160 &lt;p&gt;During the day I am part-time employed as a system administrator
 161 and part-time working as an IT consultant. The consultancy work
 162 touches free software topics wherever and whenever possible. During
 163 the nights I am a free software developer. In the gaps I also train in
 164 becoming an osteopath.&lt;/p&gt;
 165
 166 &lt;p&gt;Starting in 2010 we (Andreas Buchholz, Angela Fuß, Mike Gabriel)
 167 have set up a free software project in the area of Kiel that aims at
 168 introducing free software into schools. The project&#39;s name is
 169 &quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot; (IT future for schools). The project links IT
 170 skills with communication skills.&lt;/p&gt;
 171
 172 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 173 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 174
 175 &lt;p&gt;While preparing our own customised Linux distribution for
 176 &quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot; we were repeatedly asked if we really wanted to
 177 reinvent the wheel. What schools really need is already available,
 178 people said.  From this impulse we started evaluating other Linux
 179 distributions that target being used for school networks.&lt;/p&gt;
 180
 181 &lt;p&gt;At the end we short-listed two approaches and compared them: a
 182 commercial Linux distribution developed by a company in Bremen,
 183 Germany, and Skolelinux / Debian Edu. Between 12/2010 and 03/2011 we
 184 went to several events and met people being responsible for marketing
 185 and development of either of the distributions. Skolelinux / Debian
 186 Edu was by far much more convincing compared to the other product that
 187 got short-listed beforehand--across the full spectrum. What was most
 188 attractive for me personally: the perspective of collaboration within
 189 the developmental branch of the Debian Edu project itself.&lt;/p&gt;
 190
 191 &lt;p&gt;In parallel with this, we talked to many local and not-so-local
 192 people.  People teaching at schools, headmasters, politicians, data
 193 protection experts, other IT professionals.&lt;/p&gt;
 194
 195 &lt;p&gt;We came to two conclusions:&lt;/p&gt;
 196
 197 &lt;p&gt;First, a technical conclusion: What schools need is available in
 198 bits and pieces here and there, and none of the solutions really fit
 199 by 100%. Any school we have seen has a very individual IT setup
 200 whereas most of each school&#39;s requirements could mapped by a standard
 201 IT solution.  The requirement to this IT solution is flexibility and
 202 customisability, so that individual adaptations here and there are
 203 possible.  In terms of re-distributing and rolling out such a
 204 standardised IT system for schools (a system that is still to some
 205 degree customisable) there is still a lot of work to do here
 206 locally. Debian Edu / Skolelinux has been our choice as the starting
 207 point.&lt;/p&gt;
 208
 209 &lt;p&gt;Second, a holistic conclusion: What schools need does not exist at
 210 all (or we missed it so far). There are several technical solutions
 211 for handling IT at schools that tend to make a good impression. What
 212 has been missing completely here in Germany, though, is the enrolment
 213 of people into using IT and teaching with IT. &quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot;
 214 tries to provide an approach for this.&lt;/p&gt;
 215
 216 &lt;p&gt;Only some schools have some sort of a media concept which explains,
 217 defines and gives guidance on how to use IT in class. Most schools in
 218 Northern Germany do not have an IT service provider, the school&#39;s IT
 219 equipment is managed by one or (if the school is lucky) two (admin)
 220 teachers, most of the workload these admin teachers get done in there
 221 spare time.&lt;/p&gt;
 222
 223 &lt;p&gt;We were surprised that only a very few admin teachers were
 224 networked with colleagues from other schools. Basically, every school
 225 here around has its individual approach of providing IT equipment to
 226 teachers and students and the exchange of ideas has been quasi
 227 non-existent until 2010/2011.&lt;/p&gt;
 228
 229 &lt;p&gt;Quite some (non-admin) teachers try to avoid using IT technology in
 230 class as a learning medium completely. Several reasons for this
 231 avoidance do exist.&lt;/p&gt;
 232
 233 &lt;p&gt;We discovered that no-one has ever taken a closer look at this
 234 social part of IT management in schools, so far. On our quest journey
 235 for a technical IT solution for schools, we discussed this issue with
 236 several teachers, headmasters, politicians, other IT professionals and
 237 they all confirmed: a holistic approach of considering IT management
 238 at schools, an approach that includes the people in place, will be new
 239 and probably a gain for all.&lt;/p&gt;
 240
 241 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 242 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 243
 244 &lt;p&gt;There is a list of advantages: international context, openness to
 245 any kind of contributions, do-ocracy policy, the closeness to Debian,
 246 the different installation scenarios possible (from stand-alone
 247 workstation to complex multi-server sites), the transparency within
 248 project communication, honest communication within the group of
 249 developers, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
 250
 251 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 252 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 253
 254 &lt;p&gt;Every coin has two sides:&lt;/p&gt;
 255
 256 &lt;p&gt;Technically: &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/311188&quot;&gt;BTS issue
 257 #311188&lt;/a&gt;, tricky upgradability of a Debian Edu main server, network
 258 client installations on top of a plain vanilla Debian installation
 259 should become possible sometime in the near future, one could think
 260 about splitting the very complex package debian-edu-config into
 261 several portions (to make it easier for new developers to
 262 contribute).&lt;/p&gt;
 263
 264 &lt;p&gt;Another issue I see is that we (as Debian Edu developers) should
 265 find out more about the network of people who do the marketing for
 266 Debian Edu / Skolelinux. There is a very active group in Germany
 267 promoting Skolelinux on the bigger Linux Days within Germany. Are
 268 there other groups like that in other countries? How can we bring
 269 these marketing people together (marketing group A with group B and
 270 all of them with the group of Debian Edu developers)? During the last
 271 meeting of the German Skolelinux group, I got the impression of people
 272 there being rather disconnected from the development department of
 273 Debian Edu / Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
 274
 275 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 276
 277 &lt;p&gt;For my daily business, I do not use commercial software at all.&lt;/p&gt;
 278
 279 &lt;p&gt;For normal stuff I use Iceweasel/Firefox, Libreoffice.org. For
 280 serious text writing I prefer LaTeX. I use gimp, inkscape, scribus for
 281 more artistic tasks. I run virtual machines in KVM and Virtualbox.&lt;/p&gt;
 282
 283 &lt;p&gt;I am one of the upstream developers of X2Go. In 2010 I started the
 284 development of a Python based X2Go Client, called PyHoca-GUI.
 285 PyHoca-GUI has brought forth a Python X2Go Client API that currently
 286 is being integrated in Ubuntu&#39;s software center.&lt;/p&gt;
 287
 288 &lt;p&gt;For communications I have my own Kolab server running using Horde
 289 as web-based groupware client. For IRC I love to use irssi, for Jabber
 290 I have several clients that I use, mostly pidgin, though. I am also
 291 the Debian maintainer of Coccinella, a Jabber-based interactive
 292 whiteboard.&lt;/p&gt;
 293
 294 &lt;p&gt;My favourite terminal emulator is KDE&#39;s Yakuake.&lt;/p&gt;
 295
 296 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 297 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 298
 299 &lt;p&gt;Communicate, communicate, communicate. Enrol people, enrol people,
 300 enrol people.&lt;/p&gt;
 301 </description>
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 305                 <title>Kommentar til artikkel i Adresseavisa som omtaler FiksGataMi</title>
 306                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kommentar_til_artikkel_i_Adresseavisa_som_omtaler_FiksGataMi.html</link>
 307                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kommentar_til_artikkel_i_Adresseavisa_som_omtaler_FiksGataMi.html</guid>
 308                 <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jun 2012 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
 309                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg oppdaget nylig en
 310 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/trondheim/article1831198.ece&quot;&gt;artikkel
 311 i Adresseavisa&lt;/a&gt; i Trondheim som nevner FiksGataMi, og der Trondheim
 312 kommune ser ut til å fortelle at de ikke følger forvaltningslovens
 313 krav ved mottak av meldinger sendt inn via FiksGataMi.  La derfor
 314 nettopp inn denne kommentaren til artikkelen:&lt;p&gt;
 315
 316 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
 317
 318 &lt;p&gt;Her er en liten faktaoppdatering om FiksGataMi-tjenesten, da noen
 319 ser ut til å ha misforstått hvordan den fungerer.&lt;/p&gt;
 320
 321 &lt;p&gt;FiksGataMi er et privat initiativ opprettet og drevet av
 322 medlemsforeningen NUUG.  FiksGataMi tar imot meldinger om feil i
 323 offentlig infrastruktur, og sender meldingen skriftlig videre på vegne
 324 av innmelder til aktuell aktør i det offentlige, det være seg kommune,
 325 fylke eller vegvesenregion.  Offentlig etat blir valgt ut fra
 326 geografisk plassering og kategori valgt av innsender.  Offentlige
 327 etater er i følge forvaltningsloven pliktig å følge opp og besvare
 328 skriftlige henvendelser, og hvis noen av mottakerne ikke gjør dette
 329 kan en klage på lovbrudd i det offentlige.  FiksGataMi fungerer dermed
 330 som en slags epostklient for innbyggerne der kopi av innsendte
 331 meldinger gjøres tilgjengelig og knyttes til kartplassering for enkel
 332 gjenfinning.  Å sende inn nye problemrapporter via FiksGataMi er
 333 dermed ikke avhengig av at kommunen aktivt må følge med på meldinger
 334 hos FiksGataMi, da de får dem tilsendt på sine offisielle
 335 epostmottakspunkter.  Hvorvidt noe blir fikset og om innbyggerne er
 336 opp til mottaker av meldingene.  For Trondheim kommune er
 337 mottaksadressen bydrift.vegdrift@trondheim.kommune.no, en adresse jeg
 338 inntil jeg leste denne artikkelen trodde ble håndtert i henhold til
 339 forvaltningslovens krav.&lt;/p&gt;
 340
 341 &lt;p&gt;Kan ellers fortelle at 57 kommuner lenker til FiksGataMi fra sine
 342 nettsider, og at 37 % (4182 av 11266 ) av problemrapportene sendt inn
 343 via FiksGataMi er markert som løst i løsningen.  Trondheim kommune har
 344 fått tilbud om å få rapportene levert på datamaskinlesbart format i
 345 stedet for epost, men har ikke takket ja så langt.&lt;/p&gt;
 346
 347 &lt;p&gt;Vennlig hilsen Petter Reinholdtsen, en av NUUG-folkene bak FiksGataMi.no&lt;/p&gt;
 348
 349 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 350
 351 &lt;p&gt;Det høres for meg ut som om innbyggerne i Trondheim burde klage på
 352 kommunens potensielle lovbrudd.&lt;/p&gt;
 353 </description>
 354         </item>
 355
 356         <item>
 357                 <title>Web service to look up HP and Dell computer hardware support status</title>
 358                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_service_to_look_up_HP_and_Dell_computer_hardware_support_status.html</link>
 359                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_service_to_look_up_HP_and_Dell_computer_hardware_support_status.html</guid>
 360                 <pubDate>Wed, 6 Jun 2012 23:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
 361                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago
 362 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html&quot;&gt;I
 363 reported how to get&lt;/a&gt; the support status out of Dell using an
 364 unofficial and undocumented SOAP API, which I since have found out was
 365 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2012-February/045959.html&quot;&gt;discovered
 366 by Daniel De Marco in february&lt;/a&gt;.  Combined with my web scraping
 367 code for HP, Dell and IBM
 368 &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
 369 2009&lt;/a&gt;, I got inspired and wrote
 370 &lt;a href=&quot;https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/&quot;&gt;a
 371 web service&lt;/a&gt; based on Scraperwiki to make it easy to look up the
 372 support status and get a machine readable result back.&lt;/p&gt;
 373
 374 &lt;p&gt;This is what it look like at the moment when asking for the JSON
 375 output:
 376
 377 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 378 % 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;
 379 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;})
 380 %
 381 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
 382
 383 &lt;p&gt;It currently support Dell and HP, and I am hoping for help to add
 384 support for other vendors.  The python source is available on
 385 Scraperwiki and I welcome help with adding more features.&lt;/p&gt;
 386 </description>
 387         </item>
 388
 389         <item>
 390                 <title>TV with face recognition, for improved viewer experience</title>
 391                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/TV_with_face_recognition__for_improved_viewer_experience.html</link>
 392                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/TV_with_face_recognition__for_improved_viewer_experience.html</guid>
 393                 <pubDate>Sat, 9 Jun 2012 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
 394                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Slashdot got a story about Intel planning a
 395 &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
 396 with face recognition&lt;/a&gt; to recognise the viewer, and it occurred to
 397 me that it would be more interesting to turn it around, and do face
 398 recognition on the TV image itself.  It could let the viewer know who
 399 is present on the screen, and perhaps look up their credibility,
 400 company affiliation, previous appearances etc for the viewer to better
 401 evaluate what is being said and done.  That would be a feature I would
 402 be willing to pay for.&lt;/p&gt;
 403
 404 &lt;p&gt;I would not be willing to pay for a TV that point a camera on my
 405 household, like the big brother feature apparently proposed by Intel.
 406 It is the telescreen idea fetched straight out of the book
 407 &lt;a href=&quot;http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt&quot;&gt;1984 by George
 408 Orwell&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 409 </description>
 410         </item>
 411
 412         <item>
 413                 <title>Litt statistikk fra Offentlig Elektronisk postjournal</title>
 414                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Litt_statistikk_fra_Offentlig_Elektronisk_postjournal.html</link>
 415                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Litt_statistikk_fra_Offentlig_Elektronisk_postjournal.html</guid>
 416                 <pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
 417                 <description>&lt;p&gt;De siste månedene har jeg sammen med andre i NUUG jobbet med å
 418 gjøre det enklere å få innsyn i offentlige dokumenter, og dette
 419 inkluderer å gjøre postjournaler enklere tilgjengelig for maskinell
 420 analyse og søk.  I den forbindelse tok jeg i dag å tittet litt på
 421 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oep.no/&quot;&gt;Offentlig Elektronisk Postjournal
 422 (OEP)&lt;/a&gt;, FAD/DIFIs fellesløsning for departementer og statlige
 423 etater.&lt;/p&gt;
 424
 425 &lt;p&gt;Her er antall oppføringer pr. måned det siste året,
 426 &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
 427 opp&lt;/a&gt; ved hjelp av
 428 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/postliste-oep/&quot;&gt;en
 429 Scraperwiki-database&lt;/a&gt;.  Merk at denne Scraperwikien har
 430 ytelsesproblemer pga. mengden data. &lt;/p&gt;
 431
 432 &lt;p&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot;&gt;
 433 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;Måned&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Antall&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 434 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-07&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;164355&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 435 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-08&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;153662&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 436 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-09&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;173134&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 437 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-10&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;170665&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 438 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-11&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;198409&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 439 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-12&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;175908&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 440 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-01&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;206875&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 441 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-02&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;202862&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 442 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-03&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;204225&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 443 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-04&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;207931&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 444 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-05&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;223754&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 445 &lt;/table&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 446
 447 &lt;p&gt;Det er også interessant å se hvor ofte ulike etater sender inn sine
 448 journaloppføringer til OEP.  OEP inneholder en liste med sist
 449 innrapporteringsdato for alle som sender til OEP, og ved å se når og
 450 hvor ofte det blir sendt inn fra etatene kan
 451 &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
 452 beregnes&lt;/a&gt;.  Her er bunnlista, dvs. de som leverer sjeldnere enn hver 10.
 453 dag beregnet fra
 454 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/postliste-oep-deliverydates/&quot;&gt;en
 455 Scraperwiki-database&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
 456
 457 &lt;p&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot;&gt;
 458
 459 &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;
 460 &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;
 461 &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;
 462 &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;
 463 &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;
 464 &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;
 465 &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;
 466 &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;
 467 &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;
 468 &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;
 469 &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;
 470 &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;
 471 &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;
 472 &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;
 473 &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;
 474
 475 &lt;/table&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 476
 477 &lt;p&gt;En kan beregne lignende frekvenser ved å sammenligne
 478 journalføringsdato med publiseringsdato for hver enkelt oppføring i
 479 OEP, men den lenken legger jeg ikke ved her for å unngå at
 480 søkemotorroboter begynner å overbelaste Scraperwiki-databasen.&lt;/p&gt;
 481
 482 &lt;p&gt;Jeg har spurt Norges geologiske undersøkelse om hvorfor de leverer
 483 så sjelden, og det kommer av at de har problemer etter oppgradering av
 484 arkivsystemet sitt og jobber med å fikse det slik at de kan gå tilbake
 485 til å levere hver uke.  Har ikke undersøkt noen av de andre.&lt;/p&gt;
 486 </description>
 487         </item>
 488
 489         <item>
 490                 <title>Debian Edu - some ideas for the future versions</title>
 491                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu___some_ideas_for_the_future_versions.html</link>
 492                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu___some_ideas_for_the_future_versions.html</guid>
 493                 <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
 494                 <description>&lt;p&gt;During my work on
 495 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.nb.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
 496 based on Squeeze&lt;/a&gt;, I came across some issues that should be
 497 addressed in the Wheezy release.  I finally found time to wrap up my
 498 notes and provide quick summary of what I found, with a bit
 499 explanation.&lt;/p&gt;
 500
 501 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
 502
 503 &lt;li&gt;We need to rewrite our package installation framework, as tasksel
 504 changed from using tasksel tasks to using meta packages (aka packages
 505 with dependencies like our education-* packages), and our installation
 506 system depend on tasksel tasks in
 507 /usr/share/tasksel/debian-edu-tasks.desc for package
 508 installation.&lt;/li&gt;
 509
 510 &lt;li&gt;Enable Kerberos login for more services.  Now with the Kerberos
 511 foundation in place, we should use it to get single sign on with more
 512 services, and avoiding unneeded password / login questions.  We should
 513 at least try to enable it for these services:
 514 &lt;ul&gt;
 515
 516   &lt;li&gt;CUPS for admins to add/configure printers and users when using
 517     quotas.&lt;/li&gt;
 518   &lt;li&gt;Nagios for admins checking the system status.&lt;/li&gt;
 519   &lt;li&gt;GOsa for admins updating LDAP and users changing their passwords.&lt;/li&gt;
 520   &lt;li&gt;LDAP for admins updating LDAP.&lt;/li&gt;
 521   &lt;li&gt;Squid for users when exam mode / filtering is active.&lt;/li&gt;
 522   &lt;li&gt;ssh for admins and users to save a password prompt.&lt;/li&gt;
 523
 524 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 525
 526 &lt;li&gt;When we move GOsa to use Kerberos instead of LDAP bind to
 527 authenticate users, we should try to block or at least limit access to
 528 use LDAP bind for authentication, to ensure Kerberos is used when it
 529 is intended, and nothing fall back to using the less safe LDAP bind&lt;/li&gt;
 530
 531 &lt;li&gt;Merge debian-edu-config and debian-edu-install.  The split made
 532 sense when d-e-install did a lot more, but these days it is just an
 533 inconvenience when we update the debconf preseeding values.&lt;/li&gt;
 534
 535 &lt;li&gt;Fix partman-auto to allow us to abort the installation before
 536 touching the disk if the disk is too small.  This is
 537 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/653305&quot;&gt;BTS report #653305&lt;/a&gt; and the
 538 d-i developers are fine with the patch and someone just need to apply
 539 it and upload.  After this is done we need to adjust
 540 debian-edu-install to use this new hook.&lt;/li&gt;
 541
 542 &lt;li&gt;Adjust to new LTSP framework (boot time config instead of install
 543 time config).  LTSP changed its design, and our hooks to install
 544 packages and update the configuration is most likely not going to work
 545 in Wheezy.
 546
 547 &lt;li&gt;Consider switching to NBD instead of NFS for LTSP root, to allow
 548 the Kernel to cache files in its normal file cache, possibly speeding
 549 up KDE login on slow networks.&lt;/li&gt;
 550
 551 &lt;li&gt;Make it possible to create expired user passwords that need to
 552 change on first login.  This is useful when handing out password on
 553 paper, to make sure only the user know the password.  This require
 554 fixes to the PAM handling of kdm and gdm.&lt;/li&gt;
 555
 556 &lt;li&gt;Make GUI for adding new machines automatically from sitesummary.
 557 The current command line script is not very friendly to people most
 558 familiar with GUIs.  This should probably be integrated into GOsa to
 559 have it available where the admin will be looking for it..&lt;/li&gt;
 560
 561 &lt;li&gt;We should find way for Nagios to check that the DHCP service
 562 actually is working (as in handling out IP addresses).  None of the
 563 Nagios checks I have found so far have been working for me.&lt;/li&gt;
 564
 565 &lt;li&gt;We should switch from libpam-nss-ldapd to sssd for all profiles
 566 using LDAP, and not only on for roaming workstations, to have less
 567 packages to configure and consistent setup across all profiles.&lt;/li&gt;
 568
 569 &lt;li&gt;We should configure Kerberos to update LDAP and Samba password
 570 when changing password using the Kerberos protocol.  The hook was
 571 requested in &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/588968&quot;&gt;BTS report
 572 #588968&lt;/a&gt; and is now available in Wheezy.  We might need to write a
 573 MIT Kerberos plugin in C to get this.&lt;/li&gt;
 574
 575 &lt;li&gt;We should clean up the set of applications installed by default.
 576 &lt;ul&gt;
 577
 578 &lt;li&gt;reduce the number of chemistry visualisers&lt;/li&gt;
 579 &lt;li&gt;consider dropping xpaint&lt;/li&gt;
 580 &lt;li&gt;and probably more?&lt;/li&gt;
 581 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 582
 583 &lt;li&gt;Some hardware need external firmware to work properly.  This is
 584 mostly the case for WiFi network cards, but there are some other
 585 examples too.  For popular laptops to work out of the box, such
 586 firmware need to be installed from non-free, and we should provide
 587 some GUI to do this.  Ubuntu already have this implemented, and we
 588 could consider using their packages.  At the moment we have some
 589 command line script to do this (one for the running system, another
 590 for the LTSP chroot).&lt;/li&gt;
 591
 592
 593 &lt;li&gt;In Squeeze, we provide KDE, Gnome and LXDE as desktop options.  We
 594 should extend the list to Xfce and Sugar, and preferably find a way to
 595 install several and allow the admin or the user to select which one to
 596 use.&lt;/li&gt;
 597
 598 &lt;li&gt;The golearn tool from the goplay package make it easy to check out
 599 interesting educational packages.  We should work on the package
 600 tagging in Debian to ensure it represent all the useful educational
 601 packages, and extend the tool to allow it to use packagekit to install
 602 new applications with a simple mouse click.&lt;/li&gt;
 603
 604 &lt;li&gt;The Squeeze version got half a exam solution already in place,
 605 with the introduction of iptable based network blocking, but for it to
 606 be a complete exam solution the Squid proxy need to enable
 607 filtering/blocking as well when the exam mode is enabled.  We should
 608 implement a way to easily enable this for the schools that want it,
 609 instead of the &quot;it is documented&quot; method of today.&lt;/li&gt;
 610
 611 &lt;li&gt;A feature used in several schools is the ability for a teacher to
 612 &quot;take over&quot; the desktop of individual or all computers in the room.
 613 There are at least three implementations,
 614 &lt;a href=&quot;italc.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;italc&lt;/a&gt;,
 615 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itais.net/help/en/&quot;&gt;controlaula&lt;/a&gt; og
 616 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.epoptes.org/&quot;&gt;epoptes&lt;/a&gt; and we should pick one of
 617 them and make it trivial to set it up in a school.  The challenges is
 618 how to distribute crypto keys and how to group computers in one room
 619 and how to set up which machine/user can control the machines in a
 620 given room.&lt;/li&gt;
 621
 622 &lt;li&gt;Tablets and surf boards are getting more and more popular, and we
 623 should look into providing a good solution for integrating these into
 624 the Debian Edu network.  Not quite sure how.  Perhaps we should
 625 provide a installation profile with better touch screen support for
 626 them, or add some sync services to allow them to exchange
 627 configuration and data with the central server.  This should be
 628 investigated.&lt;/li&gt;
 629
 630 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 631
 632 &lt;p&gt;I guess we will discover more as we continue to work on the Wheezy
 633 version.&lt;/p&gt;
 634 </description>
 635         </item>
 636
 637         <item>
 638                 <title>SQL-database med anbud publisert på Doffin</title>
 639                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SQL_database_med_anbud_publisert_p__Doffin.html</link>
 640                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SQL_database_med_anbud_publisert_p__Doffin.html</guid>
 641                 <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
 642                 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.doffin.no/&quot;&gt;Doffin&lt;/a&gt; er det offentlige Norges
 643 portal for annonsering av anbudsutlysninger.  Nettstedet er mye brukt,
 644 men rådataene er ikke enkelt tilgjengelig for almenheten.  For å bøte
 645 på det har jeg som et &lt;a href=&quot;htt://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG-prosjekt&lt;/a&gt;-
 646 laget en &lt;a href=&quot;http://scraperwiki.com/&quot;&gt;Scraperwiki&lt;/a&gt;-skraper som
 647 lager en
 648 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/norwegian-doffin/&quot;&gt;SQL-database
 649 med nøkkelinformasjonen fra Doffin&lt;/a&gt;, slik at det er mulig å søke og
 650 analysere Doffin-oppføringene.  Det publiseres mellom 900-1500 anbud
 651 hver måned via Doffin.  Jeg har ingen konkrete planer for analyse, men
 652 håper enklere tilgjengelighet gjør at flere griper sjansen.  På sikt
 653 håper jeg å bruke denne databasen som grunnlag for å lage en database
 654 over anbudsdokumenter, som i dag ikke er tilgjengelig fra doffin, men
 655 må bestilles fra hver enkelt utlyser.&lt;/p&gt;
 656
 657 &lt;p&gt;Jeg var litt usikker på om det var rettighetsproblemer knyttet til
 658 skraping av informasjon fra Doffin, men ser i
 659 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.doffin.no/sitehelp/help_terms.aspx&quot;&gt;vilkårene til
 660 Doffin&lt;/a&gt; følgende:&lt;/p&gt;
 661
 662 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
 663
 664 &lt;p&gt;Opphavsrett mv&lt;/p&gt;
 665
 666 &lt;p&gt;Ved innleggig av kunngjøringer på Doffin aksepterer Oppdragsgiver
 667 at opphavsrett og andre rettigheter til materialet overføres til
 668 Fornyings- og administrasjonsdepartementet, eller den departementet
 669 utnevner.  Oppdragsgiver har imidlertid bruksrett til materialet, og
 670 kan benytte det til de formål de måtte ønske.&lt;/p&gt;
 671
 672 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 673
 674 &lt;p&gt;Hvis informasjonen er vernet av opphavsrettsloven (hvilket jeg
 675 tviler på, gitt lovens begrensninger om informasjon fra det
 676 offentlige), så er det FAD som har de immaterielle rettighetene.  FAD
 677 er en del av staten, som opererer på vegne av folket, og enhver borger
 678 skulle dermed ha rett til å videreformidle informasjonen.  Ingen av
 679 offentlighetslovens unntak kommer til anvendelse, i og med at
 680 informasjonen allerede er publisert.&lt;/p&gt;
 681 </description>
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 683
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