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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/FreedomBox_milestone___all_packages_now_in_Debian_Sid.html">FreedomBox milestone - all packages now in Debian Sid</a></div>
  24       <div class="date">15th April 2014</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>The <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">Freedombox
  26 project</a> is working on providing the software and hardware to make
  27 it easy for non-technical people to host their data and communication
  28 at home, and being able to communicate with their friends and family
  29 encrypted and away from prying eyes.  It is still going strong, and
  30 today a major mile stone was reached.</p>
  31
  32 <p>Today, the last of the packages currently used by the project to
  33 created the system images were accepted into Debian Unstable.  It was
  34 the freedombox-setup package, which is used to configure the images
  35 during build and on the first boot.  Now all one need to get going is
  36 the build code from the freedom-maker git repository and packages from
  37 Debian.  And once the freedombox-setup package enter testing, we can
  38 build everything directly from Debian. :)</p>
  39
  40 <p>Some key packages used by Freedombox are
  41 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/freedombox-setup">freedombox-setup</a>,
  42 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/plinth">plinth</a>,
  43 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/pagekite">pagekite</a>,
  44 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/tor">tor</a>,
  45 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/privoxy">privoxy</a>,
  46 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/owncloud">owncloud</a> and
  47 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/dnsmasq">dnsmasq</a>.  There
  48 are plans to integrate more packages into the setup.  User
  49 documentation is maintained on the Debian wiki.  Please
  50 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/Jessie">check out
  51 the manual</a> and help us improve it.</p>
  52
  53 <p>To test for yourself and create boot images with the FreedomBox
  54 setup, run this on a Debian machine using a user with sudo rights to
  55 become root:</p>
  56
  57 <p><pre>
  58 sudo apt-get install git vmdebootstrap mercurial python-docutils \
  59   mktorrent extlinux virtualbox qemu-user-static binfmt-support \
  60   u-boot-tools
  61 git clone http://anonscm.debian.org/git/freedombox/freedom-maker.git \
  62   freedom-maker
  63 make -C freedom-maker dreamplug-image raspberry-image virtualbox-image
  64 </pre></p>
  65
  66 <p>Root access is needed to run debootstrap and mount loopback
  67 devices.  See the README in the freedom-maker git repo for more
  68 details on the build.  If you do not want all three images, trim the
  69 make line.  Note that the virtualbox-image target is not really
  70 virtualbox specific.  It create a x86 image usable in kvm, qemu,
  71 vmware and any other x86 virtual machine environment.  You might need
  72 the version of vmdebootstrap in Jessie to get the build working, as it
  73 include fixes for a race condition with kpartx.</p>
  74
  75 <p>If you instead want to install using a Debian CD and the preseed
  76 method, boot a Debian Wheezy ISO and use this boot argument to load
  77 the preseed values:</p>
  78
  79 <p><pre>
  80 url=<a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat</a>
  81 </pre></p>
  82
  83 <p>I have not tested it myself the last few weeks, so I do not know if
  84 it still work.</p>
  85
  86 <p>If you wonder how to help, one task you could look at is using
  87 systemd as the boot system.  It will become the default for Linux in
  88 Jessie, so we need to make sure it is usable on the Freedombox.  I did
  89 a simple test a few weeks ago, and noticed dnsmasq failed to start
  90 during boot when using systemd.  I suspect there are other problems
  91 too. :) To detect problems, there is a test suite included, which can
  92 be run from the plinth web interface.</p>
  93
  94 <p>Give it a go and let us know how it goes on the mailing list, and help
  95 us get the new release published. :) Please join us on
  96 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">IRC (#freedombox on
  97 irc.debian.org)</a> and
  98 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">the
  99 mailing list</a> if you want to help make this vision come true.</p>
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 104         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/freedombox">freedombox</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
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 111     <div class="entry">
 112       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Spr_kkoder_for_POSIX_locale_i_Norge.html">Språkkoder for POSIX locale i Norge</a></div>
 113       <div class="date">11th April 2014</div>
 114       <div class="body"><p>For 12 år siden, skrev jeg et lite notat om
 115 <a href="http://i18n.skolelinux.no/localekoder.txt">bruk av språkkoder
 116 i Norge</a>.  Jeg ble nettopp minnet på dette da jeg fikk spørsmål om
 117 notatet fortsatt var aktuelt, og tenkte det var greit å repetere hva
 118 som fortsatt gjelder.  Det jeg skrev da er fortsatt like aktuelt.</p>
 119
 120 <p>Når en velger språk i programmer på unix, så velger en blant mange
 121 språkkoder.  For språk i Norge anbefales følgende språkkoder (anbefalt
 122 locale i parantes):</p>
 123
 124 <p><dl>
 125 <dt>nb (nb_NO)</dt><dd>Bokmål i Norge</dd>
 126 <dt>nn (nn_NO)</dt><dd>Nynorsk i Norge</dd>
 127 <dt>se (se_NO)</dt><dd>Nordsamisk i Norge</dd>
 128 </dl></p>
 129
 130 <p>Alle programmer som bruker andre koder bør endres.</p>
 131
 132 <p>Språkkoden bør brukes når .po-filer navngis og installeres.  Dette
 133 er ikke det samme som locale-koden.  For Norsk Bokmål, så bør filene
 134 være navngitt nb.po, mens locale (LANG) bør være nb_NO.</p>
 135
 136 <p>Hvis vi ikke får standardisert de kodene i alle programmene med
 137 norske oversettelser, så er det umulig å gi LANG-variablen ett innhold
 138 som fungerer for alle programmer.</p>
 139
 140 <p>Språkkodene er de offisielle kodene fra ISO 639, og bruken av dem i
 141 forbindelse med POSIX localer er standardisert i RFC 3066 og ISO
 142 15897.  Denne anbefalingen er i tråd med de angitte standardene.</p>
 143
 144 <p>Følgende koder er eller har vært i bruk som locale-verdier for
 145 "norske" språk.  Disse bør unngås, og erstattes når de oppdages:</p>
 146
 147 <p><table>
 148 <tr><td>norwegian</td><td>-> nb_NO</td></tr>
 149 <tr><td>bokmål   </td><td>-> nb_NO</td></tr>
 150 <tr><td>bokmal   </td><td>-> nb_NO</td></tr>
 151 <tr><td>nynorsk  </td><td>-> nn_NO</td></tr>
 152 <tr><td>no       </td><td>-> nb_NO</td></tr>
 153 <tr><td>no_NO    </td><td>-> nb_NO</td></tr>
 154 <tr><td>no_NY    </td><td>-> nn_NO</td></tr>
 155 <tr><td>sme_NO   </td><td>-> se_NO</td></tr>
 156 </table></p>
 157
 158 <p>Merk at når det gjelder de samiske språkene, at se_NO i praksis
 159 henviser til nordsamisk i Norge, mens f.eks.  smj_NO henviser til
 160 lulesamisk.  Dette notatet er dog ikke ment å gi råd rundt samiske
 161 språkkoder, der gjør
 162 <a href="http://www.divvun.no/">Divvun-prosjektet</a> en bedre
 163 jobb.</p>
 164
 165 <p><strong>Referanser:</strong></p>
 166
 167 <ul>
 168
 169   <li><a href="http://www.rfc-base.org/rfc-3066.html">RFC 3066 - Tags
 170     for the Identification of Languages</a> (Erstatter RFC 1766)</li>
 171
 172   <li><a href="http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langcodes.html">ISO
 173     639</a> - Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages</li>
 174
 175   <li><a href="http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg20/docs/n897-14652w25.pdf">ISO
 176     DTR 14652</a> - locale-standard Specification method for cultural
 177     conventions</li>
 178
 179   <li><a href="http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg20/docs/n610.pdf">ISO
 180     15897: Registration procedures for cultural elements (cultural
 181     registry)</a>,
 182     <a href="http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg20/docs/n849-15897wd6.pdf">(nytt
 183     draft)</a></li>
 184
 185   <li><a href="http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg20/">ISO/IEC
 186     JTC1/SC22/WG20</a> - Gruppen for i18n-standardisering i ISO</li>
 187
 188 <ul>
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 191
 192
 193         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
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 201       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/S3QL__a_locally_mounted_cloud_file_system___nice_free_software.html">S3QL, a locally mounted cloud file system - nice free software</a></div>
 202       <div class="date"> 9th April 2014</div>
 203       <div class="body"><p>For a while now, I have been looking for a sensible offsite backup
 204 solution for use at home.  My requirements are simple, it must be
 205 cheap and locally encrypted (in other words, I keep the encryption
 206 keys, the storage provider do not have access to my private files).
 207 One idea me and my friends had many years ago, before the cloud
 208 storage providers showed up, was to use Google mail as storage,
 209 writing a Linux block device storing blocks as emails in the mail
 210 service provided by Google, and thus get heaps of free space.  On top
 211 of this one can add encryption, RAID and volume management to have
 212 lots of (fairly slow, I admit that) cheap and encrypted storage.  But
 213 I never found time to implement such system.  But the last few weeks I
 214 have looked at a system called
 215 <a href="https://bitbucket.org/nikratio/s3ql/">S3QL</a>, a locally
 216 mounted network backed file system with the features I need.</p>
 217
 218 <p>S3QL is a fuse file system with a local cache and cloud storage,
 219 handling several different storage providers, any with Amazon S3,
 220 Google Drive or OpenStack API.  There are heaps of such storage
 221 providers.  S3QL can also use a local directory as storage, which
 222 combined with sshfs allow for file storage on any ssh server.  S3QL
 223 include support for encryption, compression, de-duplication, snapshots
 224 and immutable file systems, allowing me to mount the remote storage as
 225 a local mount point, look at and use the files as if they were local,
 226 while the content is stored in the cloud as well.  This allow me to
 227 have a backup that should survive fire.  The file system can not be
 228 shared between several machines at the same time, as only one can
 229 mount it at the time, but any machine with the encryption key and
 230 access to the storage service can mount it if it is unmounted.</p>
 231
 232 <p>It is simple to use.  I'm using it on Debian Wheezy, where the
 233 package is included already.  So to get started, run <tt>apt-get
 234 install s3ql</tt>.  Next, pick a storage provider.  I ended up picking
 235 Greenqloud, after reading their nice recipe on
 236 <a href="https://greenqloud.zendesk.com/entries/44611757-How-To-Use-S3QL-to-mount-a-StorageQloud-bucket-on-Debian-Wheezy">how
 237 to use S3QL with their Amazon S3 service</a>, because I trust the laws
 238 in Iceland more than those in USA when it come to keeping my personal
 239 data safe and private, and thus would rather spend money on a company
 240 in Iceland.  Another nice recipe is available from the article
 241 <a href="http://www.admin-magazine.com/HPC/Articles/HPC-Cloud-Storage">S3QL
 242 Filesystem for HPC Storage</a> by Jeff Layton in the HPC section of
 243 Admin magazine.  When the provider is picked, figure out how to get
 244 the API key needed to connect to the storage API.  With Greencloud,
 245 the key did not show up until I had added payment details to my
 246 account.</p>
 247
 248 <p>Armed with the API access details, it is time to create the file
 249 system.  First, create a new bucket in the cloud.  This bucket is the
 250 file system storage area.  I picked a bucket name reflecting the
 251 machine that was going to store data there, but any name will do.
 252 I'll refer to it as <tt>bucket-name</tt> below.  In addition, one need
 253 the API login and password, and a locally created password.  Store it
 254 all in ~root/.s3ql/authinfo2 like this:
 255
 256 <p><blockquote><pre>
 257 [s3c]
 258 storage-url: s3c://s.greenqloud.com:443/bucket-name
 259 backend-login: API-login
 260 backend-password: API-password
 261 fs-passphrase: local-password
 262 </pre></blockquote></p>
 263
 264 <p>I create my local passphrase using <tt>pwget 50</tt> or similar,
 265 but any sensible way to create a fairly random password should do it.
 266 Armed with these details, it is now time to run mkfs, entering the API
 267 details and password to create it:</p>
 268
 269 <p><blockquote><pre>
 270 # mkdir -m 700 /var/lib/s3ql-cache
 271 # mkfs.s3ql --cachedir /var/lib/s3ql-cache --authfile /root/.s3ql/authinfo2 \
 272   --ssl s3c://s.greenqloud.com:443/bucket-name
 273 Enter backend login:
 274 Enter backend password:
 275 Before using S3QL, make sure to read the user's guide, especially
 276 the 'Important Rules to Avoid Loosing Data' section.
 277 Enter encryption password:
 278 Confirm encryption password:
 279 Generating random encryption key...
 280 Creating metadata tables...
 281 Dumping metadata...
 282 ..objects..
 283 ..blocks..
 284 ..inodes..
 285 ..inode_blocks..
 286 ..symlink_targets..
 287 ..names..
 288 ..contents..
 289 ..ext_attributes..
 290 Compressing and uploading metadata...
 291 Wrote 0.00 MB of compressed metadata.
 292 # </pre></blockquote></p>
 293
 294 <p>The next step is mounting the file system to make the storage available.
 295
 296 <p><blockquote><pre>
 297 # mount.s3ql --cachedir /var/lib/s3ql-cache --authfile /root/.s3ql/authinfo2 \
 298   --ssl --allow-root s3c://s.greenqloud.com:443/bucket-name /s3ql
 299 Using 4 upload threads.
 300 Downloading and decompressing metadata...
 301 Reading metadata...
 302 ..objects..
 303 ..blocks..
 304 ..inodes..
 305 ..inode_blocks..
 306 ..symlink_targets..
 307 ..names..
 308 ..contents..
 309 ..ext_attributes..
 310 Mounting filesystem...
 311 # df -h /s3ql
 312 Filesystem                              Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
 313 s3c://s.greenqloud.com:443/bucket-name  1.0T     0  1.0T   0% /s3ql
 314 #
 315 </pre></blockquote></p>
 316
 317 <p>The file system is now ready for use.  I use rsync to store my
 318 backups in it, and as the metadata used by rsync is downloaded at
 319 mount time, no network traffic (and storage cost) is triggered by
 320 running rsync.  To unmount, one should not use the normal umount
 321 command, as this will not flush the cache to the cloud storage, but
 322 instead running the umount.s3ql command like this:
 323
 324 <p><blockquote><pre>
 325 # umount.s3ql /s3ql
 326 #
 327 </pre></blockquote></p>
 328
 329 <p>There is a fsck command available to check the file system and
 330 correct any problems detected.  This can be used if the local server
 331 crashes while the file system is mounted, to reset the "already
 332 mounted" flag.  This is what it look like when processing a working
 333 file system:</p>
 334
 335 <p><blockquote><pre>
 336 # fsck.s3ql --force --ssl s3c://s.greenqloud.com:443/bucket-name
 337 Using cached metadata.
 338 File system seems clean, checking anyway.
 339 Checking DB integrity...
 340 Creating temporary extra indices...
 341 Checking lost+found...
 342 Checking cached objects...
 343 Checking names (refcounts)...
 344 Checking contents (names)...
 345 Checking contents (inodes)...
 346 Checking contents (parent inodes)...
 347 Checking objects (reference counts)...
 348 Checking objects (backend)...
 349 ..processed 5000 objects so far..
 350 ..processed 10000 objects so far..
 351 ..processed 15000 objects so far..
 352 Checking objects (sizes)...
 353 Checking blocks (referenced objects)...
 354 Checking blocks (refcounts)...
 355 Checking inode-block mapping (blocks)...
 356 Checking inode-block mapping (inodes)...
 357 Checking inodes (refcounts)...
 358 Checking inodes (sizes)...
 359 Checking extended attributes (names)...
 360 Checking extended attributes (inodes)...
 361 Checking symlinks (inodes)...
 362 Checking directory reachability...
 363 Checking unix conventions...
 364 Checking referential integrity...
 365 Dropping temporary indices...
 366 Backing up old metadata...
 367 Dumping metadata...
 368 ..objects..
 369 ..blocks..
 370 ..inodes..
 371 ..inode_blocks..
 372 ..symlink_targets..
 373 ..names..
 374 ..contents..
 375 ..ext_attributes..
 376 Compressing and uploading metadata...
 377 Wrote 0.89 MB of compressed metadata.
 378 #
 379 </pre></blockquote></p>
 380
 381 <p>Thanks to the cache, working on files that fit in the cache is very
 382 quick, about the same speed as local file access.  Uploading large
 383 amount of data is to me limited by the bandwidth out of and into my
 384 house.  Uploading 685 MiB with a 100 MiB cache gave me 305 kiB/s,
 385 which is very close to my upload speed, and downloading the same
 386 Debian installation ISO gave me 610 kiB/s, close to my download speed.
 387 Both were measured using <tt>dd</tt>.  So for me, the bottleneck is my
 388 network, not the file system code.  I do not know what a good cache
 389 size would be, but suspect that the cache should e larger than your
 390 working set.</p>
 391
 392 <p>I mentioned that only one machine can mount the file system at the
 393 time.  If another machine try, it is told that the file system is
 394 busy:</p>
 395
 396 <p><blockquote><pre>
 397 # mount.s3ql --cachedir /var/lib/s3ql-cache --authfile /root/.s3ql/authinfo2 \
 398   --ssl --allow-root s3c://s.greenqloud.com:443/bucket-name /s3ql
 399 Using 8 upload threads.
 400 Backend reports that fs is still mounted elsewhere, aborting.
 401 #
 402 </pre></blockquote></p>
 403
 404 <p>The file content is uploaded when the cache is full, while the
 405 metadata is uploaded once every 24 hour by default.  To ensure the
 406 file system content is flushed to the cloud, one can either umount the
 407 file system, or ask S3QL to flush the cache and metadata using
 408 s3qlctrl:
 409
 410 <p><blockquote><pre>
 411 # s3qlctrl upload-meta /s3ql
 412 # s3qlctrl flushcache /s3ql
 413 #
 414 </pre></blockquote></p>
 415
 416 <p>If you are curious about how much space your data uses in the
 417 cloud, and how much compression and deduplication cut down on the
 418 storage usage, you can use s3qlstat on the mounted file system to get
 419 a report:</p>
 420
 421 <p><blockquote><pre>
 422 # s3qlstat /s3ql
 423 Directory entries:    9141
 424 Inodes:               9143
 425 Data blocks:          8851
 426 Total data size:      22049.38 MB
 427 After de-duplication: 21955.46 MB (99.57% of total)
 428 After compression:    21877.28 MB (99.22% of total, 99.64% of de-duplicated)
 429 Database size:        2.39 MB (uncompressed)
 430 (some values do not take into account not-yet-uploaded dirty blocks in cache)
 431 #
 432 </pre></blockquote></p>
 433
 434 <p>I mentioned earlier that there are several possible suppliers of
 435 storage.  I did not try to locate them all, but am aware of at least
 436 <a href="https://www.greenqloud.com/">Greenqloud</a>,
 437 <a href="http://drive.google.com/">Google Drive</a>,
 438 <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/s3/">Amazon S3 web serivces</a>,
 439 <a href="http://www.rackspace.com/">Rackspace</a> and
 440 <a href="http://crowncloud.net/">Crowncloud</A>.  The latter even
 441 accept payment in Bitcoin.  Pick one that suit your need.  Some of
 442 them provide several GiB of free storage, but the prize models are
 443 quite different and you will have to figure out what suits you
 444 best.</p>
 445
 446 <p>While researching this blog post, I had a look at research papers
 447 and posters discussing the S3QL file system.  There are several, which
 448 told me that the file system is getting a critical check by the
 449 science community and increased my confidence in using it.  One nice
 450 poster is titled
 451 "<a href="http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/adtsc/publications/science_highlights_2013/docs/pg68_69.pdf">An
 452 Innovative Parallel Cloud Storage System using OpenStack’s SwiftObject
 453 Store and Transformative Parallel I/O Approach</a>" by Hsing-Bung
 454 Chen, Benjamin McClelland, David Sherrill, Alfred Torrez, Parks Fields
 455 and Pamela Smith.  Please  have a look.</p>
 456
 457 <p>Given my problems with different file systems earlier, I decided to
 458 check out the mounted S3QL file system to see if it would be usable as
 459 a home directory (in other word, that it provided POSIX semantics when
 460 it come to locking and umask handling etc).  Running
 461 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_if_a_file_system_can_be_used_for_home_directories___.html">my
 462 test code to check file system semantics</a>, I was happy to discover that
 463 no error was found.  So the file system can be used for home
 464 directories, if one chooses to do so.</p>
 465
 466 <p>If you do not want a locally file system, and want something that
 467 work without the Linux fuse file system, I would like to mention the
 468 <a href="http://www.tarsnap.com/">Tarsnap service</a>, which also
 469 provide locally encrypted backup using a command line client.  It have
 470 a nicer access control system, where one can split out read and write
 471 access, allowing some systems to write to the backup and others to
 472 only read from it.</p>
 473
 474 <p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 475 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 476 <b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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 481         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/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
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 488     <div class="entry">
 489       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EU_domstolen_bekreftet_i_dag_at_datalagringsdirektivet_er_ulovlig.html">EU-domstolen bekreftet i dag at datalagringsdirektivet er ulovlig</a></div>
 490       <div class="date"> 8th April 2014</div>
 491       <div class="body"><p>I dag kom endelig avgjørelsen fra EU-domstolen om
 492 datalagringsdirektivet, som ikke overraskende ble dømt ulovlig og i
 493 strid med borgernes grunnleggende rettigheter.  Hvis du lurer på hva
 494 datalagringsdirektivet er for noe, så er det
 495 <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/program/koid75005313/tema-dine-digitale-spor-datalagringsdirektivet">en
 496 flott dokumentar tilgjengelig hos NRK</a> som jeg tidligere
 497 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dokumentaren_om_Datalagringsdirektivet_sendes_endelig_p__NRK.html">har
 498 anbefalt</a> alle å se.</p>
 499
 500 <p>Her er et liten knippe nyhetsoppslag om saken, og jeg regner med at
 501 det kommer flere ut over dagen.  Flere kan finnes
 502 <a href="http://www.mylder.no/?drill=datalagringsdirektivet&intern=1">via
 503 mylder</a>.</p>
 504
 505 <p><ul>
 506
 507 <li><a href="http://e24.no/digital/eu-domstolen-datalagringsdirektivet-er-ugyldig/22879592">EU-domstolen:
 508 Datalagringsdirektivet er ugyldig</a> - e24.no 2014-04-08
 509
 510 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/EU-domstolen-Datalagringsdirektivet-er-ulovlig-7529032.html">EU-domstolen:
 511 Datalagringsdirektivet er ulovlig</a> - aftenposten.no 2014-04-08
 512
 513 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/politikk/Krever-DLD-stopp-i-Norge-7530086.html">Krever
 514 DLD-stopp i Norge</a> - aftenposten.no 2014-04-08
 515
 516 <li><a href="http://www.p4.no/story.aspx?id=566431">Apenes: - En
 517 gledens dag</a> - p4.no 2014-04-08
 518
 519 <li><a href="http://www.nrk.no/norge/_-datalagringsdirektivet-er-ugyldig-1.11655929">EU-domstolen:
 520 – Datalagringsdirektivet er ugyldig</a> - nrk.no 2014-04-08</li>
 521
 522 <li><a href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/data-og-nett/eu-domstolen-datalagringsdirektivet-er-ugyldig/a/10130280/">EU-domstolen:
 523 Datalagringsdirektivet er ugyldig</a> - vg.no 2014-04-08</li>
 524
 525 <li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/04/08/nyheter/innenriks/datalagringsdirektivet/personvern/32711646/">-
 526 Vi bør skrote hele datalagringsdirektivet</a> - dagbladet.no
 527 2014-04-08</li>
 528
 529 <li><a href="http://www.digi.no/928137/eu-domstolen-dld-er-ugyldig">EU-domstolen:
 530 DLD er ugyldig</a> - digi.no 2014-04-08</li>
 531
 532 <li><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/technology/european-court-declares-data-retention-directive-invalid-1.1754150">European
 533 court declares data retention directive invalid</a> - irishtimes.com
 534 2014-04-08</li>
 535
 536 <li><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/08/us-eu-data-ruling-idUSBREA370F020140408?feedType=RSS">EU
 537 court rules against requirement to keep data of telecom users</a> -
 538 reuters.com 2014-04-08</li>
 539
 540 </ul>
 541 </p>
 542
 543 <p>Jeg synes det er veldig fint at nok en stemme slår fast at
 544 totalitær overvåkning av befolkningen er uakseptabelt, men det er
 545 fortsatt like viktig å beskytte privatsfæren som før, da de
 546 teknologiske mulighetene fortsatt finnes og utnyttes, og jeg tror
 547 innsats i prosjekter som
 548 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">Freedombox</a> og
 549 <a href="http://www.dugnadsnett.no/">Dugnadsnett</a> er viktigere enn
 550 noen gang.</p>
 551
 552 <p><strong>Update 2014-04-08 12:10</strong>: Kronerullingen for å
 553 stoppe datalagringsdirektivet i Norge gjøres hos foreningen
 554 <a href="http://www.digitaltpersonvern.no/">Digitalt Personvern</a>,
 555 som har samlet inn 843 215,- så langt men trenger nok mye mer hvis
 556
 557 ikke Høyre og Arbeiderpartiet bytter mening i saken.  Det var
 558 <a href="http://www.holderdeord.no/parliament-issues/48650">kun
 559 partinene Høyre og Arbeiderpartiet</a> som stemte for
 560 Datalagringsdirektivet, og en av dem må bytte mening for at det skal
 561 bli flertall mot i Stortinget.  Se mer om saken
 562 <a href="http://www.holderdeord.no/issues/69-innfore-datalagringsdirektivet">Holder
 563 de ord</a>.</p>
 564 </div>
 565       <div class="tags">
 566
 567
 568         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/dld">dld</a>, <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>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
 569
 570
 571       </div>
 572     </div>
 573     <div class="padding"></div>
 574
 575     <div class="entry">
 576       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ReactOS_Windows_clone___nice_free_software.html">ReactOS Windows clone - nice free software</a></div>
 577       <div class="date"> 1st April 2014</div>
 578       <div class="body"><p>Microsoft have announced that Windows XP reaches its end of life
 579 2014-04-08, in 7 days.  But there are heaps of machines still running
 580 Windows XP, and depending on Windows XP to run their applications, and
 581 upgrading will be expensive, both when it comes to money and when it
 582 comes to the amount of effort needed to migrate from Windows XP to a
 583 new operating system.  Some obvious options (buy new a Windows
 584 machine, buy a MacOSX machine, install Linux on the existing machine)
 585 are already well known and covered elsewhere.  Most of them involve
 586 leaving the user applications installed on Windows XP behind and
 587 trying out replacements or updated versions. In this blog post I want
 588 to mention one strange bird that allow people to keep the hardware and
 589 the existing Windows XP applications and run them on a free software
 590 operating system that is Windows XP compatible.</p>
 591
 592 <p><a href="http://www.reactos.org/">ReactOS</a> is a free software
 593 operating system (GNU GPL licensed) working on providing a operating
 594 system that is binary compatible with Windows, able to run windows
 595 programs directly and to use Windows drivers for hardware directly.
 596 The project goal is for Windows user to keep their existing machines,
 597 drivers and software, and gain the advantages from user a operating
 598 system without usage limitations caused by non-free licensing.  It is
 599 a Windows clone running directly on the hardware, so quite different
 600 from the approach taken by <a href="http://www.winehq.org/">the Wine
 601 project</a>, which make it possible to run Windows binaries on
 602 Linux.</p>
 603
 604 <p>The ReactOS project share code with the Wine project, so most
 605 shared libraries available on Windows are already implemented already.
 606 There is also a software manager like the one we are used to on Linux,
 607 allowing the user to install free software applications with a simple
 608 click directly from the Internet.  Check out the
 609 <a href="http://www.reactos.org/screenshots">screen shots on the
 610 project web site</a> for an idea what it look like (it looks just like
 611 Windows before metro).</p>
 612
 613 <p>I do not use ReactOS myself, preferring Linux and Unix like
 614 operating systems.  I've tested it, and it work fine in a virt-manager
 615 virtual machine.  The browser, minesweeper, notepad etc is working
 616 fine as far as I can tell.  Unfortunately, my main test application
 617 is the software included on a CD with the Lego Mindstorms NXT, which
 618 seem to install just fine from CD but fail to leave any binaries on
 619 the disk after the installation.  So no luck with that test software.
 620 No idea why, but hope someone else figure out and fix the problem.
 621 I've tried the ReactOS Live ISO on a physical machine, and it seemed
 622 to work just fine.  If you like Windows and want to keep running your
 623 old Windows binaries, check it out by
 624 <a href="http://www.reactos.org/download">downloading</a> the
 625 installation CD, the live CD or the preinstalled virtual machine
 626 image.</p>
 627 </div>
 628       <div class="tags">
 629
 630
 631         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/reactos">reactos</a>.
 632
 633
 634       </div>
 635     </div>
 636     <div class="padding"></div>
 637
 638     <div class="entry">
 639       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Roger_Marsal.html">Debian Edu interview: Roger Marsal</a></div>
 640       <div class="date">30th March 2014</div>
 641       <div class="body"><p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>
 642 keep gaining new users.  Some weeks ago, a person showed up on IRC,
 643 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org/#debian-edu">#debian-edu</a>, with a
 644 wish to contribute, and I managed to get a interview with this great
 645 contributor Roger Marsal to learn more about his background.</p>
 646
 647 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 648
 649 <p>My name is Roger Marsal, I'm 27 years old (1986 generation) and I
 650 live in Barcelona, Spain. I've got a strong business background and I
 651 work as a patrimony manager and as a real estate agent.  Additionally,
 652 I've co-founded a British based tech company that is nowadays on the
 653 last development phase of a new social networking concept.</p>
 654
 655 <p>I'm a Linux enthusiast that started its journey with Ubuntu four years
 656 ago and have recently switched to Debian seeking rock solid stability
 657 and as a necessary step to gain expertise.</p>
 658
 659 <p>In a nutshell, I spend my days working and learning as much as I
 660 can to face both my job, entrepreneur project and feed my Linux
 661 hunger.</p>
 662
 663 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
 664 project?</strong></p>
 665
 666 <p>I discovered the <a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">LTSP</a> advantages
 667 with "Ubuntu 12.04 alternate install" and after a year of use I
 668 started looking for an alternative.  Even though I highly value and
 669 respect the Ubuntu project, I thought it was necessary for me to
 670 change to a more robust and stable alternative.  As far as I was using
 671 Debian on my personal laptop I thought it would be fine to install
 672 Debian and configure an LTSP server myself.  Surprised, I discovered
 673 that the Debian project also supported a kind of Edubuntu equivalent,
 674 and after having some pain I obtained a Debian Edu network up and
 675 running.  I just loved it.</p>
 676
 677 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 678 Edu?</strong></p>
 679
 680 <p>I found a main advantage in that, once you know "the tips and
 681 tricks", a new installation just works out of the box. It's the most
 682 complete alternative I've found to create an LTSP network. All the
 683 other distributions seems to be made of plastic, Debian Edu seems to
 684 be made of steel.</p>
 685
 686 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 687 Edu?</strong></p>
 688
 689 <p>I found two main disadvantages.</p>
 690
 691 <p>I'm not an expert but I've got notions and I had to spent a considerable
 692 amount of time trying to bring up a standard network topology. I'm quite
 693 stubborn and I just worked until I did but I'm sure many people with few
 694 resources (not big schools, but academies for example) would have switched
 695 or dropped.</p>
 696
 697 <p>It's amazing how such a complex system like Debian Edu has achieved
 698 this out-of-the-box state. Even though tweaking without breaking gets
 699 more difficult, as more factors have to be considered. This can
 700 discourage many people too.</p>
 701
 702 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 703
 704 <p>I use Debian, Firefox, Okular, Inkscape, LibreOffice and
 705 Virtualbox.</p>
 706
 707
 708 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 709 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 710
 711 <p>I don't think there is a need for a particular strategy. The free
 712 attribute in both "freedom" and "no price" meanings is what will
 713 really bring free software to schools. In my experience I can think of
 714 the <a href="http://www.r-project.org/">"R" statistical language</a>; a
 715 few years a ago was an extremely nerd tool for university people.
 716 Today it's being increasingly used to teach statistics at many
 717 different level of studies.  I believe free and open software will
 718 increasingly gain popularity, but I'm sure schools will be one of the
 719 first scenarios where this will happen.</p>
 720 </div>
 721       <div class="tags">
 722
 723
 724         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/intervju">intervju</a>.
 725
 726
 727       </div>
 728     </div>
 729     <div class="padding"></div>
 730
 731     <div class="entry">
 732       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dokumentaren_om_Datalagringsdirektivet_sendes_endelig_p__NRK.html">Dokumentaren om Datalagringsdirektivet sendes endelig på NRK</a></div>
 733       <div class="date">26th March 2014</div>
 734       <div class="body"><p><a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Foreningen NUUG</a> melder i natt at
 735 NRK nå har bestemt seg for
 736 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/news/NRK_viser_filmen_om_Datalagringsdirektivet_f_rste_gang_2014_03_31.shtml">når
 737 den norske dokumentarfilmen om datalagringsdirektivet skal
 738 sendes</a> (se <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2832844/">IMDB</a>
 739 for detaljer om filmen) . Første visning blir på NRK2 mandag
 740 2014-03-31 kl. 19:50, og deretter visninger onsdag 2014-04-02
 741 kl. 12:30, fredag 2014-04-04 kl. 19:40 og søndag 2014-04-06 kl. 15:10.
 742 Jeg har sett dokumentaren, og jeg anbefaler enhver å se den selv.  Som
 743 oppvarming mens vi venter anbefaler jeg Bjørn Stærks kronikk i
 744 Aftenposten fra i går,
 745 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/Autoritar-gjokunge-7514915.html">Autoritær
 746 gjøkunge</a>, der han gir en grei skisse av hvor ille det står til med
 747 retten til privatliv og beskyttelsen av demokrati i Norge og resten
 748 verden, og helt riktig slår fast at det er vi i databransjen som
 749 sitter med nøkkelen til å gjøre noe med dette.  Jeg har involvert meg
 750 i prosjektene <a href="http://www.dugnadsnett.no/">dugnadsnett.no</a>
 751 og <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">FreedomBox</a> for å
 752 forsøke å gjøre litt selv for å bedre situasjonen, men det er mye
 753 hardt arbeid fra mange flere enn meg som gjenstår før vi kan sies å ha
 754 gjenopprettet balansen.</p>
 755
 756 <p>Jeg regner med at nettutgaven dukker opp på
 757 <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/program/koid75005313/tema-dine-digitale-spor-datalagringsdirektivet">NRKs
 758 side om filmen om datalagringsdirektivet</a> om fem dager.  Hold et
 759 øye med siden, og tips venner og slekt om at de også bør se den.</p>
 760 </div>
 761       <div class="tags">
 762
 763
 764         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/dld">dld</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/mesh network">mesh network</a>, <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>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
 765
 766
 767       </div>
 768     </div>
 769     <div class="padding"></div>
 770
 771     <div class="entry">
 772       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Public_Trusted_Timestamping_services_for_everyone.html">Public Trusted Timestamping services for everyone</a></div>
 773       <div class="date">25th March 2014</div>
 774       <div class="body"><p>Did you ever need to store logs or other files in a way that would
 775 allow it to be used as evidence in court, and needed a way to
 776 demonstrate without reasonable doubt that the file had not been
 777 changed since it was created?  Or, did you ever need to document that
 778 a given document was received at some point in time, like some
 779 archived document or the answer to an exam, and not changed after it
 780 was received?  The problem in these settings is to remove the need to
 781 trust yourself and your computers, while still being able to prove
 782 that a file is the same as it was at some given time in the past.</p>
 783
 784 <p>A solution to these problems is to have a trusted third party
 785 "stamp" the document and verify that at some given time the document
 786 looked a given way.  Such
 787 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notarius">notarius</a> service
 788 have been around for thousands of years, and its digital equivalent is
 789 called a
 790 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping">trusted
 791 timestamping service</a>.  <a href="http://www.ietf.org/">The Internet
 792 Engineering Task Force</a> standardised how such service could work a
 793 few years ago as <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3161">RFC
 794 3161</a>.  The mechanism is simple.  Create a hash of the file in
 795 question, send it to a trusted third party which add a time stamp to
 796 the hash and sign the result with its private key, and send back the
 797 signed hash + timestamp.  Both email, FTP and HTTP can be used to
 798 request such signature, depending on what is provided by the service
 799 used. Anyone with the document and the signature can then verify that
 800 the document matches the signature by creating their own hash and
 801 checking the signature using the trusted third party public key.
 802 There are several commercial services around providing such
 803 timestamping.  A quick search for
 804 "<a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rfc+3161+service">rfc 3161
 805 service</a>" pointed me to at least
 806 <a href="https://www.digistamp.com/technical/how-a-digital-time-stamp-works/">DigiStamp</a>,
 807 <a href="http://www.quovadisglobal.co.uk/CertificateServices/SigningServices/TimeStamp.aspx">Quo
 808 Vadis</a>,
 809 <a href="https://www.globalsign.com/timestamp-service/">Global Sign</a>
 810 and <a href="http://www.globaltrustfinder.com/TSADefault.aspx">Global
 811 Trust Finder</a>.  The system work as long as the private key of the
 812 trusted third party is not compromised.</p>
 813
 814 <p>But as far as I can tell, there are very few public trusted
 815 timestamp services available for everyone.  I've been looking for one
 816 for a while now. But yesterday I found one over at
 817 <a href="https://www.pki.dfn.de/zeitstempeldienst/">Deutches
 818 Forschungsnetz</a> mentioned in
 819 <a href="http://www.d-mueller.de/blog/dealing-with-trusted-timestamps-in-php-rfc-3161/">a
 820 blog by David Müller</a>.  I then found
 821 <a href="http://www.rz.uni-greifswald.de/support/dfn-pki-zertifikate/zeitstempeldienst.html">a
 822 good recipe on how to use the service</a> over at the University of
 823 Greifswald.</p>
 824
 825 <p><a href="http://www.openssl.org/">The OpenSSL library</a> contain
 826 both server and tools to use and set up your own signing service.  See
 827 the ts(1SSL), tsget(1SSL) manual pages for more details.  The
 828 following shell script demonstrate how to extract a signed timestamp
 829 for any file on the disk in a Debian environment:</p>
 830
 831 <p><blockquote><pre>
 832 #!/bin/sh
 833 set -e
 834 url="http://zeitstempel.dfn.de"
 835 caurl="https://pki.pca.dfn.de/global-services-ca/pub/cacert/chain.txt"
 836 reqfile=$(mktemp -t tmp.XXXXXXXXXX.tsq)
 837 resfile=$(mktemp -t tmp.XXXXXXXXXX.tsr)
 838 cafile=chain.txt
 839 if [ ! -f $cafile ] ; then
 840     wget -O $cafile "$caurl"
 841 fi
 842 openssl ts -query -data "$1" -cert | tee "$reqfile" \
 843     | /usr/lib/ssl/misc/tsget -h "$url" -o "$resfile"
 844 openssl ts -reply -in "$resfile" -text 1>&2
 845 openssl ts -verify -data "$1" -in "$resfile" -CAfile "$cafile" 1>&2
 846 base64 < "$resfile"
 847 rm "$reqfile" "$resfile"
 848 </pre></blockquote></p>
 849
 850 <p>The argument to the script is the file to timestamp, and the output
 851 is a base64 encoded version of the signature to STDOUT and details
 852 about the signature to STDERR.  Note that due to
 853 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742553">a bug
 854 in the tsget script</a>, you might need to modify the included script
 855 and remove the last line.  Or just write your own HTTP uploader using
 856 curl. :) Now you too can prove and verify that files have not been
 857 changed.</p>
 858
 859 <p>But the Internet need more public trusted timestamp services.
 860 Perhaps something for <a href="http://www.uninett.no/">Uninett</a> or
 861 my work place the <a href="http://www.uio.no/">University of Oslo</a>
 862 to set up?</p>
 863 </div>
 864       <div class="tags">
 865
 866
 867         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
 868
 869
 870       </div>
 871     </div>
 872     <div class="padding"></div>
 873
 874     <div class="entry">
 875       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Video_DVD_reader_library___python_dvdvideo___nice_free_software.html">Video DVD reader library / python-dvdvideo - nice free software</a></div>
 876       <div class="date">21st March 2014</div>
 877       <div class="body"><p>Keeping your DVD collection safe from scratches and curious
 878 children fingers while still having it available when you want to see a
 879 movie is not straight forward.  My preferred method at the moment is
 880 to store a full copy of the ISO on a hard drive, and use VLC, Popcorn
 881 Hour or other useful players to view the resulting file.  This way the
 882 subtitles and bonus material are still available and using the ISO is
 883 just like inserting the original DVD record in the DVD player.</p>
 884
 885 <p>Earlier I used dd for taking security copies, but it do not handle
 886 DVDs giving read errors (which are quite a few of them).  I've also
 887 tried using
 888 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ripping_problematic_DVDs_using_dvdbackup_and_genisoimage.html">dvdbackup
 889 and genisoimage</a>, but these days I use the marvellous python library
 890 and program
 891 <a href="http://bblank.thinkmo.de/blog/new-software-python-dvdvideo">python-dvdvideo</a>
 892 written by Bastian Blank.  It is
 893 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-dvdvideo.html">in Debian
 894 already</a> and the binary package name is python3-dvdvideo. Instead
 895 of trying to read every block from the DVD, it parses the file
 896 structure and figure out which block on the DVD is actually in used,
 897 and only read those blocks from the DVD.  This work surprisingly well,
 898 and I have been able to almost backup my entire DVD collection using
 899 this method.</p>
 900
 901 <p>So far, python-dvdvideo have failed on between 10 and
 902 20 DVDs, which is a small fraction of my collection.  The most common
 903 problem is
 904 <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720831">DVDs
 905 using UTF-16 instead of UTF-8 characters</a>, which according to
 906 Bastian is against the DVD specification (and seem to cause some
 907 players to fail too).  A rarer problem is what seem to be inconsistent
 908 DVD structures, as the python library
 909 <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=723079">claim
 910 there is a overlap between objects</a>.  An equally rare problem claim
 911 <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741878">some
 912 value is out of range</a>.  No idea what is going on there.  I wish I
 913 knew enough about the DVD format to fix these, to ensure my movie
 914 collection will stay with me in the future.</p>
 915
 916 <p>So, if you need to keep your DVDs safe, back them up using
 917 python-dvdvideo. :)</p>
 918 </div>
 919       <div class="tags">
 920
 921
 922         Tags: <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/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
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 928
 929     <div class="entry">
 930       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norsk_utgave_av_Alaveteli___WhatDoTheyKnow_p__trappene.html">Norsk utgave av Alaveteli / WhatDoTheyKnow på trappene</a></div>
 931       <div class="date">16th March 2014</div>
 932       <div class="body"><p>Det offentlige Norge har mye kunnskap og informasjon.  Men hvordan
 933 kan en få tilgang til den på en enkel måte?  Takket være et lite
 934 knippe lover og tilhørende forskrifter, blant annet
 935 <a href="http://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2006-05-19-16">offentlighetsloven</a>,
 936 <a href="http://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-05-09-31">miljøinformasjonsloven</a>
 937 og
 938 <a href="http://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1967-02-10/">forvaltningsloven</a>
 939 har en rett til å spørre det offentlige og få svar.  Men det finnes
 940 intet offentlig arkiv over hva andre har spurt om, og dermed risikerer en
 941 å måtte forstyrre myndighetene gang på gang for å få tak i samme
 942 informasjonen på nytt.  <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/">Britiske
 943 mySociety</a> har laget tjenesten
 944 <a href="http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/">WhatDoTheyKnow</a> som gjør
 945 noe med dette.  I Storbritannia blir WhatdoTheyKnow brukt i
 946 <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/2011/07/01/whatdotheyknows-share-of-central-government-foi-requests-q2-2011/">ca
 947 15% av alle innsynsforespørsler mot sentraladministrasjonen</a>.
 948 Prosjektet heter <a href="http://www.alaveteli.org/">Alaveteli</A>, og
 949 er takk i bruk en rekke steder etter at løsningen ble generalisert og
 950 gjort mulig å oversette.  Den hjelper borgerne med å be om innsyn,
 951 rådgir ved purringer og klager og lar alle se hvilke henvendelser som
 952 er sendt til det offentlige og hvilke svar som er kommet inn, i et
 953 søkpart arkiv.  Her i Norge holder vi i foreningen NUUG på å få opp en
 954 norsk utgave av Alaveteli, og her trenger vi din hjelp med
 955 oversettelsen.</p>
 956
 957 <p>Så langt er 76 % av Alaveteli oversatt til norsk bokmål, men vi
 958 skulle gjerne vært oppe i 100 % før lansering.  Oversettelsen gjøres
 959 på <a href="https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/alaveteli/">Transifex,
 960 der enhver som registrerer seg</a> og ber om tilgang til
 961 bokmålsoversettelsen får bidra.  Vi har satt opp en test av tjenesten
 962 (som ikke sender epost til det offentlige, kun til oss som holder på å
 963 sette opp tjenesten) på maskinen
 964 <a href="http://alaveteli-dev.nuug.no/">alaveteli-dev.nuug.no</a>, der
 965 en kan se hvordan de oversatte meldingen blir seende ut på nettsiden.
 966 Når tjenesten lanseres vil den hete
 967 <a href="https://www.mimesbrønn.no/">Mimes brønn</a>, etter
 968 visdomskilden som Odin måtte gi øyet sitt for å få drikke i.  Den
 969 nettsiden er er ennå ikke klar til bruk.</p>
 970
 971 <p>Hvis noen vil oversette til nynorsk også, så skal vi finne ut
 972 hvordan vi lager en flerspråklig tjeneste.  Men i første omgang er
 973 fokus på bokmålsoversettelsen, der vi selv har nok peiling til å ha
 974 fått oversatt 76%, men trenger hjelp for å komme helt i mål. :)</p>
 975 </div>
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 979         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn</a>.
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