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22 <h3>Entries from January
2013.
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26 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_find_a_browser_plugin_supporting_a_given_MIME_type.html">How to find a browser plugin supporting a given MIME type
</a>
32 <p>Some times I try to figure out which Iceweasel browser plugin to
33 install to get support for a given MIME type. Thanks to
34 <a href=
"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Plugins">specifications
35 done by Ubuntu
</a> and Mozilla, it is possible to do this in Debian.
36 Unfortunately, not very many packages provide the needed meta
37 information, Anyway, here is a small script to look up all browser
38 plugin packages announcing ther MIME support using this specification:
</p>
44 def pkgs_handling_mimetype(mimetype):
49 version = pkg.candidate
51 version = pkg.installed
54 record = version.record
55 if not record.has_key('Npp-MimeType'):
57 mime_types = record['Npp-MimeType'].split(',')
59 t = t.rstrip().strip()
61 thepkgs.append(pkg.name)
63 mimetype = "audio/ogg"
65 mimetype = sys.argv[
1]
66 print "Browser plugin packages supporting %s:" % mimetype
67 for pkg in pkgs_handling_mimetype(mimetype):
71 <p>It can be used like this to look up a given MIME type:
</p>
74 % ./apt-find-browserplug-for-mimetype
75 Browser plugin packages supporting audio/ogg:
77 % ./apt-find-browserplug-for-mimetype application/x-shockwave-flash
78 Browser plugin packages supporting application/x-shockwave-flash:
83 <p>In Ubuntu this mechanism is combined with support in the browser
84 itself to query for plugins and propose to install the needed
85 packages. It would be great if Debian supported such feature too. Is
86 anyone working on adding it?
</p>
88 <p><strong>Update
2013-
01-
18 14:
20</strong>: The Debian BTS
89 request for icweasel support for this feature is
90 <a href=
"http://bugs.debian.org/484010">#
484010</a> from
2008 (and
91 <a href=
"http://bugs.debian.org/698426">#
698426</a> from today). Lack
92 of manpower and wish for a different design is the reason thus feature
93 is not yet in iceweasel from Debian.
</p>
99 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>.
104 <div class=
"padding"></div>
108 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_most_supported_MIME_type_in_Debian_.html">What is the most supported MIME type in Debian?
</a>
114 <p>The
<a href=
"http://wiki.debian.org/AppStreamDebianProposal">DEP-
11
115 proposal to add AppStream information to the Debian archive
</a>, is a
116 proposal to make it possible for a Desktop application to propose to
117 the user some package to install to gain support for a given MIME
118 type, font, library etc. that is currently missing. With such
119 mechanism in place, it would be possible for the desktop to
120 automatically propose and install leocad if some LDraw file is
121 downloaded by the browser.
</p>
123 <p>To get some idea about the current content of the archive, I decided
124 to write a simple program to extract all .desktop files from the
125 Debian archive and look up the claimed MIME support there. The result
127 <a href=
"http://ftp.skolelinux.org/pub/AppStreamTest">Skolelinux FTP
128 site
</a>. Using the collected information, it become possible to
129 answer the question in the title. Here are the
20 most supported MIME
130 types in Debian stable (Squeeze), testing (Wheezy) and unstable (Sid).
131 The complete list is available from the link above.
</p>
133 <p><strong>Debian Stable:
</strong></p>
137 ----- -----------------------
160 <p><strong>Debian Testing:
</strong></p>
164 ----- -----------------------
187 <p><strong>Debian Unstable:
</strong></p>
191 ----- -----------------------
214 <p>I am told that PackageKit can provide an API to access the kind of
215 information mentioned in DEP-
11. I have not yet had time to look at
216 it, but hope the PackageKit people in Debian are on top of these
219 <p><strong>Update
2013-
01-
16 13:
35</strong>: Updated numbers after
220 discovering a typo in my script.
</p>
226 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>.
231 <div class=
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235 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_modalias_info_to_find_packages_handling_my_hardware.html">Using modalias info to find packages handling my hardware
</a>
241 <p>Yesterday, I wrote about the
242 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Modalias_strings___a_practical_way_to_map__stuff__to_hardware.html">modalias
243 values provided by the Linux kernel
</a> following my hope for
244 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_hardware_dongles_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html">better
245 dongle support in Debian
</a>. Using this knowledge, I have tested how
246 modalias values attached to package names can be used to map packages
247 to hardware. This allow the system to look up and suggest relevant
248 packages when I plug in some new hardware into my machine, and replace
249 discover and discover-data as the database used to map hardware to
252 <p>I create a modaliases file with entries like the following,
253 containing package name, kernel module name (if relevant, otherwise
254 the package name) and globs matching the relevant hardware
258 Package: package-name
259 <br>Modaliases: module(modaliasglob, modaliasglob, modaliasglob)
</p>
262 <p>It is fairly trivial to write code to find the relevant packages
263 for a given modalias value using this file.
</p>
265 <p>An entry like this would suggest the video and picture application
266 cheese for many USB web cameras (interface bus class
0E01):
</p>
270 <br>Modaliases: cheese(usb:v*p*d*dc*dsc*dp*ic0Eisc01ip*)
</p>
273 <p>An entry like this would suggest the pcmciautils package when a
274 CardBus bridge (bus class
0607) PCI device is present:
</p>
278 <br>Modaliases: pcmciautils(pci:v*d*sv*sd*bc06sc07i*)
281 <p>An entry like this would suggest the package colorhug-client when
282 plugging in a ColorHug with USB IDs
04D8:F8DA:
</p>
285 Package: colorhug-client
286 <br>Modaliases: colorhug-client(usb:v04D8pF8DAd*)
</p>
289 <p>I believe the format is compatible with the format of the Packages
290 file in the Debian archive. Ubuntu already uses their Packages file
291 to store their mappings from packages to hardware.
</p>
293 <p>By adding a XB-Modaliases: header in debian/control, any .deb can
294 announce the hardware it support in a way my prototype understand.
295 This allow those publishing packages in an APT source outside the
296 Debian archive as well as those backporting packages to make sure the
297 hardware mapping are included in the package meta information. I've
298 tested such header in the pymissile package, and its modalias mapping
299 is working as it should with my prototype. It even made it to Ubuntu
302 <p>To test if it was possible to look up supported hardware using only
303 the shell tools available in the Debian installer, I wrote a shell
304 implementation of the lookup code. The idea is to create files for
305 each modalias and let the shell do the matching. Please check out and
307 <a href=
"http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/hw-support-lookup?view=co">hw-support-lookup
</a>
308 shell script. It run without any extra dependencies and fetch the
309 hardware mappings from the Debian archive and the subversion
310 repository where I currently work on my prototype.
</p>
312 <p>When I use it on a machine with a yubikey inserted, it suggest to
313 install yubikey-personalization:
</p>
316 % ./hw-support-lookup
317 <br>yubikey-personalization
321 <p>When I run it on my Thinkpad X40 with a PCMCIA/CardBus slot, it
322 propose to install the pcmciautils package:
</p>
325 % ./hw-support-lookup
330 <p>If you know of any hardware-package mapping that should be added to
331 <a href=
"http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/modaliases?view=co">my
332 database
</a>, please tell me about it.
</p>
334 <p>It could be possible to generate several of the mappings between
335 packages and hardware. One source would be to look at packages with
336 kernel modules, ie packages with *.ko files in /lib/modules/, and
337 extract their modalias information. Another would be to look at
338 packages with udev rules, ie packages with files in
339 /lib/udev/rules.d/, and extract their vendor/model information to
340 generate a modalias matching rule. I have not tested any of these to
343 <p>If you want to help implementing a system to let us propose what
344 packages to install when new hardware is plugged into a Debian
345 machine, please send me an email or talk to me on
346 <a href=
"irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-devel">#debian-devel
</a>.
</p>
352 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>.
357 <div class=
"padding"></div>
361 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Modalias_strings___a_practical_way_to_map__stuff__to_hardware.html">Modalias strings - a practical way to map "stuff" to hardware
</a>
367 <p>While looking into how to look up Debian packages based on hardware
368 information, to find the packages that support a given piece of
369 hardware, I refreshed my memory regarding modalias values, and decided
370 to document the details. Here are my findings so far, also available
372 <a href=
"http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/">the
373 Debian Edu subversion repository
</a>:
375 <p><strong>Modalias decoded
</strong></p>
377 <p>This document try to explain what the different types of modalias
378 values stands for. It is in part based on information from
379 <URL:
<a href=
"https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Modalias">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Modalias
</a> >,
380 <URL:
<a href=
"http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26132/how-to-assign-usb-driver-to-device">http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/
26132/how-to-assign-usb-driver-to-device
</a> >,
381 <URL:
<a href=
"http://code.metager.de/source/history/linux/stable/scripts/mod/file2alias.c">http://code.metager.de/source/history/linux/stable/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
</a> > and
382 <URL:
<a href=
"http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/dmidecode/dmidecode.c?root=dmidecode&view=markup">http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/dmidecode/dmidecode.c?root=dmidecode&view=markup
</a> >.
384 <p>The modalias entries for a given Linux machine can be found using
385 this shell script:
</p>
388 find /sys -name modalias -print0 | xargs -
0 cat | sort -u
391 <p>The supported modalias globs for a given kernel module can be found
395 % /sbin/modinfo psmouse | grep alias:
396 alias: serio:ty05pr*id*ex*
397 alias: serio:ty01pr*id*ex*
401 <p><strong>PCI subtype
</strong></p>
403 <p>A typical PCI entry can look like this. This is an Intel Host
404 Bridge memory controller:
</p>
407 pci:v00008086d00002770sv00001028sd000001ADbc06sc00i00
410 <p>This represent these values:
</p>
415 sv
00001028 (subvendor)
416 sd
000001AD (subdevice)
422 <p>The vendor/device values are the same values outputted from 'lspci
423 -n' as
8086:
2770. The bus class/subclass is also shown by lspci as
424 0600. The
0600 class is a host bridge. Other useful bus values are
425 0300 (VGA compatible card) and
0200 (Ethernet controller).
</p>
427 <p>Not sure how to figure out the interface value, nor what it
430 <p><strong>USB subtype
</strong></p>
432 <p>Some typical USB entries can look like this. This is an internal
433 USB hub in a laptop:
</p>
436 usb:v1D6Bp0001d0206dc09dsc00dp00ic09isc00ip00
439 <p>Here is the values included in this alias:
</p>
442 v
1D6B (device vendor)
443 p
0001 (device product)
446 dsc
00 (device subclass)
447 dp
00 (device protocol)
448 ic
09 (interface class)
449 isc
00 (interface subclass)
450 ip
00 (interface protocol)
453 <p>The
0900 device class/subclass means hub. Some times the relevant
454 class is in the interface class section. For a simple USB web camera,
455 these alias entries show up:
</p>
458 usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic01isc01ip00
459 <br>usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic01isc02ip00
460 <br>usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic0Eisc01ip00
461 <br>usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic0Eisc02ip00
464 <p>Interface class
0E01 is video control,
0E02 is video streaming (aka
465 camera),
0101 is audio control device and
0102 is audio streaming (aka
466 microphone). Thus this is a camera with microphone included.
</p>
468 <p><strong>ACPI subtype
</strong></p>
470 <p>The ACPI type is used for several non-PCI/USB stuff. This is an IR
471 receiver in a Thinkpad X40:
</p>
474 acpi:IBM0071:PNP0511:
477 <p>The values between the colons are IDs.
</p>
479 <p><strong>DMI subtype
</strong></p>
481 <p>The DMI table contain lots of information about the computer case
482 and model. This is an entry for a IBM Thinkpad X40, fetched from
483 /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/modalias:
</p>
486 dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1UETB6WW(
1.66):bd06/
15/
2005:svnIBM:pn2371H4G:pvrThinkPadX40:rvnIBM:rn2371H4G:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
489 <p>The values present are
</p>
492 bvn IBM (BIOS vendor)
493 bvr
1UETB
6WW(
1.66) (BIOS version)
494 bd
06/
15/
2005 (BIOS date)
495 svn IBM (system vendor)
496 pn
2371H4G (product name)
497 pvr ThinkPadX40 (product version)
498 rvn IBM (board vendor)
499 rn
2371H4G (board name)
500 rvr NotAvailable (board version)
501 cvn IBM (chassis vendor)
503 cvr NotAvailable (chassis version)
506 <p>The chassis type
10 is Notebook. Other interesting values can be
507 found in the dmidecode source:
</p>
511 4 Low Profile Desktop
524 17 Main Server Chassis
527 20 Bus Expansion Chassis
528 21 Peripheral Chassis
530 23 Rack Mount Chassis
539 <p>The chassis type values are not always accurately set in the DMI
540 table. For example my home server is a tower, but the DMI modalias
541 claim it is a desktop.
</p>
543 <p><strong>SerIO subtype
</strong></p>
545 <p>This type is used for PS/
2 mouse plugs. One example is from my
549 serio:ty01pr00id00ex00
552 <p>The values present are
</p>
561 <p>This type is supported by the psmouse driver. I am not sure what
562 the valid values are.
</p>
564 <p><strong>Other subtypes
</strong></p>
566 <p>There are heaps of other modalias subtypes according to
567 file2alias.c. There is the rest of the list from that source: amba,
568 ap, bcma, ccw, css, eisa, hid, i2c, ieee1394, input, ipack, isapnp,
569 mdio, of, parisc, pcmcia, platform, scsi, sdio, spi, ssb, vio, virtio,
570 vmbus, x86cpu and zorro. I did not spend time documenting all of
571 these, as they do not seem relevant for my intended use with mapping
572 hardware to packages when new stuff is inserted during run time.
</p>
574 <p><strong>Looking up kernel modules using modalias values
</strong></p>
576 <p>To check which kernel modules provide support for a given modalias,
577 one can use the following shell script:
</p>
580 for id in $(find /sys -name modalias -print0 | xargs -
0 cat | sort -u); do \
582 /sbin/modprobe --show-depends "$id"|sed 's/^/ /' ; \
586 <p>The output can look like this (only the first few entries as the
587 list is very long on my test machine):
</p>
591 insmod /lib/modules/
2.6.32-
5-
686/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.ko
593 FATAL: Module acpi:device: not found.
595 insmod /lib/modules/
2.6.32-
5-
686/kernel/drivers/char/nvram.ko
596 insmod /lib/modules/
2.6.32-
5-
686/kernel/drivers/leds/led-class.ko
597 insmod /lib/modules/
2.6.32-
5-
686/kernel/net/rfkill/rfkill.ko
598 insmod /lib/modules/
2.6.32-
5-
686/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.ko
599 acpi:IBM0071:PNP0511:
600 insmod /lib/modules/
2.6.32-
5-
686/kernel/lib/crc-ccitt.ko
601 insmod /lib/modules/
2.6.32-
5-
686/kernel/net/irda/irda.ko
602 insmod /lib/modules/
2.6.32-
5-
686/kernel/drivers/net/irda/nsc-ircc.ko
606 <p>If you want to help implementing a system to let us propose what
607 packages to install when new hardware is plugged into a Debian
608 machine, please send me an email or talk to me on
609 <a href=
"irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-devel">#debian-devel
</a>.
</p>
611 <p><strong>Update
2013-
01-
15:
</strong> Rewrite "cat $(find ...)" to
612 "find ... -print0 | xargs -
0 cat" to make sure it handle directories
613 in /sys/ with space in them.
</p>
619 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>.
624 <div class=
"padding"></div>
628 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Moved_the_pymissile_Debian_packaging_to_collab_maint.html">Moved the pymissile Debian packaging to collab-maint
</a>
634 <p>As part of my investigation on how to improve the support in Debian
635 for hardware dongles, I dug up my old Mark and Spencer USB Rocket
636 Launcher and updated the Debian package
637 <a href=
"http://packages.qa.debian.org/pymissile">pymissile
</a> to make
638 sure udev will fix the device permissions when it is plugged in. I
639 also added a "Modaliases" header to test it in the Debian archive and
640 hopefully make the package be proposed by jockey in Ubuntu when a user
641 plug in his rocket launcher. In the process I moved the source to a
642 git repository under collab-maint, to make it easier for any DD to
643 contribute.
<a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/pymissile/">Upstream
</a>
644 is not very active, but the software still work for me even after five
645 years of relative silence. The new git repository is not listed in
646 the uploaded package yet, because I want to test the other changes a
647 bit more before I upload the new version. If you want to check out
648 the new version with a .desktop file included, visit the
649 <a href=
"http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/pymissile.git">gitweb
650 view
</a> or use "
<tt>git clone
651 git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/pymissile.git
</tt>".</p>
657 Tags: <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/robot
">robot</a>.
662 <div class="padding
"></div>
666 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_hardware_dongles_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html
">Lets make hardware dongles easier to use in Debian</a>
672 <p>One thing that annoys me with Debian and Linux distributions in
673 general, is that there is a great package management system with the
674 ability to automatically install software packages by downloading them
675 from the distribution mirrors, but no way to get it to automatically
676 install the packages I need to use the hardware I plug into my
677 machine. Even if the package to use it is easily available from the
678 Linux distribution. When I plug in a LEGO Mindstorms NXT, it could
679 suggest to automatically install the python-nxt, nbc and t2n packages
680 I need to talk to it. When I plug in a Yubikey, it could propose the
681 yubikey-personalization package. The information required to do this
682 is available, but no-one have pulled all the pieces together.</p>
684 <p>Some years ago, I proposed to
685 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/
2010/
05/msg01206.html
">use
686 the discover subsystem to implement this</a>. The idea is fairly
691 <li>Add a desktop entry in /usr/share/autostart/ pointing to a program
692 starting when a user log in.</li>
694 <li>Set this program up to listen for kernel events emitted when new
695 hardware is inserted into the computer.</li>
697 <li>When new hardware is inserted, look up the hardware ID in a
698 database mapping to packages, and take note of any non-installed
701 <li>Show a message to the user proposing to install the discovered
702 package, and make it easy to install it.</li>
706 <p>I am not sure what the best way to implement this is, but my
707 initial idea was to use dbus events to discover new hardware, the
708 discover database to find packages and
709 <a href="http://www.packagekit.org/
">PackageKit</a> to install
712 <p>Yesterday, I found time to try to implement this idea, and the
713 draft package is now checked into
714 <a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/
">the
715 Debian Edu subversion repository</a>. In the process, I updated the
716 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/discover-data.html
">discover-data</a>
717 package to map the USB ids of LEGO Mindstorms and Yubikey devices to
718 the relevant packages in Debian, and uploaded a new version
719 2.2013.01.09 to unstable. I also discovered that the current
720 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/discover.html
">discover</a>
721 package in Debian no longer discovered any USB devices, because
722 /proc/bus/usb/devices is no longer present. I ported it to use
723 libusb as a fall back option to get it working. The fixed package
724 version 2.1.2-6 is now in experimental (didn't upload it to unstable
725 because of the freeze).</p>
727 <p>With this prototype in place, I can insert my Yubikey, and get this
728 desktop notification to show up (only once, the first time it is
731 <p align="center
"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/
2013-
01-
09-hw-autoinstall.png
"></p>
733 <p>For this prototype to be really useful, some way to automatically
734 install the proposed packages by pressing the "Please install
735 program(s)" button should to be implemented.
</p>
737 <p>If this idea seem useful to you, and you want to help make it
738 happen, please help me update the discover-data database with mappings
739 from hardware to Debian packages. Check if 'discover-pkginstall -l'
740 list the package you would like to have installed when a given
741 hardware device is inserted into your computer, and report bugs using
742 reportbug if it isn't. Or, if you know of a better way to provide
743 such mapping, please let me know.
</p>
745 <p>This prototype need more work, and there are several questions that
746 should be considered before it is ready for production use. Is dbus
747 the correct way to detect new hardware? At the moment I look for HAL
748 dbus events on the system bus, because that is the events I could see
749 on my Debian Squeeze KDE desktop. Are there better events to use?
750 How should the user be notified? Is the desktop notification
751 mechanism the best option, or should the background daemon raise a
752 popup instead? How should packages be installed? When should they
753 not be installed?
</p>
755 <p>If you want to help getting such feature implemented in Debian,
756 please send me an email. :)
</p>
762 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>.
767 <div class=
"padding"></div>
771 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_IRC_channel_for_LEGO_designers_using_Debian.html">New IRC channel for LEGO designers using Debian
</a>
777 <p>During Christmas, I have worked a bit on the Debian support for
778 <a href=
"http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx">LEGO Mindstorm
779 NXT
</a>. My son and I have played a bit with my NXT set, and I
780 discovered I had to build all the tools myself because none were
781 already in Debian Squeeze. If Debian support for LEGO is something
782 you care about, please join me on the IRC channel
783 <a href=
"irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-lego">#debian-lego
</a> (server
784 irc.debian.org). There is a lot that could be done to improve the
785 Debian support for LEGO designers. For example both CAD software
786 and Mindstorm compilers are missing. :)
</p>
788 <p>Update
2012-
01-
03: A
789 <a href=
"http://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners">project page
</a>
790 including links to Lego related packages is now available.
</p>
796 Tags:
<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/robot">robot
</a>.
801 <div class=
"padding"></div>
805 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenker_for_2013_01_01.html">Lenker for
2013-
01-
01</a>
811 <p>Her er noen lenker til tekster jeg har satt pris på å lese den
817 <a href=
"http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article262047.ece">Myter og
818 FUD om fri programvare
</a> av min venn Christer Gundersen som
819 kommenterer noen av de påstandene som er spredt via Computerworld
820 Norge de siste månedene.
</li>
822 <li>BankID er et opplegg der utsteder (dvs. banken eller dens
823 leverandør) sitter på alt som trengs for å bruke BankID, men har
824 lovet å ikke bruke den unntatt på oppdrag fra deg. Det er greit nok
825 for banktjenester, der banken allerede har full kontroll over
826 resultatet, men problematisk når det gjelder tilgang til
827 helseopplysninger og avtaleinngåelse med andre enn banken. Jeg
828 håper protestene brer om seg.
832 <li>2012-
12-
11 <a href=
"http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/BankID-blottlegger-helseopplysninger-7067148.html">BankID
833 blottlegger helseopplysninger
</a></li>
835 <li>2012-
12-
07 <a href=
"http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.9695027">-
836 Helseopplysningene ikke sikre med Bank-ID
</a></li>
839 <a href=
"https://www.bankid.no/Presse-og-nyheter/Nyhetsarkiv/2012/Papeker-alvorlige-men-kjente-utfordringer/">PÃ¥peker
840 alvorlige, men kjente utfordringer
</a> er den offisielle
841 holdningen til de som lager BankID.
</li>
844 <a href=
"http://www.tnp.no/norway/panorama/3419-ntnu-researcher-warns-against-security-of-bank-id-password">NTNU
845 Researcher Warns against Security of Bank ID Password
</a>
849 <li>2012-
12-
11 <a href=
"http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Norske-elever-er-darligst-i-Europa-pa-algebra-7066752.html">Norske elever er dårligst i Europa på algebra
</a>
852 <a href=
"http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/Realfagsdodaren-7067173.html">Realfagsdødaren
</a>
855 <a href=
"http://www.bt.no/nyheter/innenriks/112/--Forventningene-er-for-hoye-2816450.html">-
856 Noen må bli skuffet
</a> - Politiet i Bergen forteller hvor lavt de
857 prioriterer hverdagskriminalitet.
</li>
860 <a href=
"http://e24.no/jobb/kripos-ansatt-doemt-for-snoking-for-venn/20208585">
861 Kripos-ansatt dømt for snoking for venn
</A> - viser hvor svak
862 reaksjonen blir når politiet misbruker innsamlet informasjon. En
863 forvarsel på konsekvensene av nasjonal brev- og besøkskontroll -
864 ofte kalt Datalagringsdirektivet.
</li>
867 <a href=
"http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/12/14/kultur/debatt/kronikk/jul/ensomhet/24838541/">Ã…
868 smøre en forskjell
</a> - om ensomhet og jul.
</li>
871 <a href=
"http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/n-krise-av-gangen_-takk-7072452.html">Én
872 krise av gangen, takk!
</a>
876 <a href=
"http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/NAV-Et-mangehodet-monster--7072165.html">NAV:
877 Et mangehodet monster
</a></li>
880 <a href=
"http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/01/12/kultur/debatt/kronikk/personvern/15027203/">Pasienter
881 uten vern
</a> - forteller litt om hvordan Norsk Pasientregister og
882 andre helseregister raderer bort pasienters privatsfære.
</li>
886 <a href=
"http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/Hvorfor-er-barnefamilier-fattige-7073951.html">Hvorfor
887 er barnefamilier fattige?
</a></li>
890 <a href=
"http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/spaltister/Den-skjulte-minoriteten--konservative-kristne-i-Norge-7075518.html">Den
891 skjulte minoriteten – konservative kristne i Norge
</a> - kronikk av
892 Bjørn Stærk fra aftenposten
</li>
895 <a href=
"http://deltemeninger.no/-/bulletin/show/303429_folkebiblioteket-2-0?ref=checkpoint">Folkebiblioteket
896 2.0</a> - Min venn Sturle om opphavsrett og Internett, i debatt med
901 <p>Og et godt nytt år til dere alle!
</p>
907 Tags:
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