blog/archive/2013/02/02.rss

   1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
   2 <rss version='2.0' xmlns:lj='http://www.livejournal.org/rss/lj/1.0/'>
   3         <channel>
   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from February 2013</title>
   5                 <description>Entries from February 2013</description>
   6                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/</link>
   7
   8
   9         <item>
  10                 <title>Sleep until morning - home automation for the kids</title>
  11                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sleep_until_morning___home_automation_for_the_kids.html</link>
  12                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sleep_until_morning___home_automation_for_the_kids.html</guid>
  13                 <pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right:25px;&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-02-10-morning-light.jpeg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  15
  16 &lt;p&gt;With kids in the house, one challenge is getting them to sleep
  17 during the night and wake up when it is morning.  I mean, when I
  18 believe it is morning, and not two hours earlier.  In our household we
  19 have decided that 07:00 is the turning point, but getting the kids to
  20 sleep until 07:00 is a small challenge every day.  They have adapted
  21 quite well, and rarely wake up at 05:00 any more, but some times wake
  22 up at times like 05:50, 06:15, 06:30 or 06:45, and it is hard to put
  23 the awake one to bed again without disturbing and waking the rest.
  24 And I understand perfectly well that they fail to sleep until 07:00
  25 some times, as there is no way for them to know if it is before or
  26 after the magic moment without coming and asking us parents.&lt;/p&gt;
  27
  28 &lt;p&gt;But yesterday I came up with a method to solve this problem.  It
  29 involve home automation.  A few years ago I bought a
  30 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telldus.se/products/tellstick&quot;&gt;Tellstick&lt;/a&gt; and RF
  31 switches at the local &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.clasohlson.com/&quot;&gt;Clas
  32 Ohlson&lt;/a&gt; shop, allowing me to control lights and other electrical
  33 gadgets using my Linux server.  When I moved from the old flat to a
  34 small house, I put away all this equipment as most of the lighting in
  35 the house was not using wall sockets and thus not easy to connect to
  36 the gadgets I had.  But recently I bought a
  37 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telldus.se/products/tellstick_net&quot;&gt;Tellstick
  38 Net&lt;/a&gt; to be able to read sensor input as well as control power
  39 sockets.  I want to control ovens in the basement to avoid the pipes
  40 to freeze, and monitor the humidity to detect flooding.  The default
  41 setup for Tellstick Net is to be controlled by the vendor web service,
  42 which to me is a security problem, but it is also possible to build
  43 ones own
  44 &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.telldus.com/blog/2012/03/02/help-us-develop-local-access-using-tellstick-net-build-your-own-firmware&quot;&gt;firmware
  45 with local access&lt;/A&gt; instead of being controlled by a Swedish
  46 company, thanks to the release of the GPL licensed firmware source
  47 code.  I plan to get that running before I let it control anything
  48 important.  But while working on this, one idea to make it easier for
  49 the kids came to me yesterday.  We can set up a night light controlled
  50 by the computer, and turn it automatically on at 07:00.  The kids can
  51 then check the light in the morning to know if they are supposed to
  52 get up or not.  They joined me in setting everything up, and I
  53 repeated the concept several times before bed times to make sure they
  54 remembered to check the light before getting up in the morning.&lt;/p&gt;
  55
  56 &lt;p&gt;We tested it this morning, and all the kids stayed in bed until
  57 after 07:00, and every one of them commented on the fact that the
  58 &quot;morning light&quot; was turned on and signalled that the morning had
  59 arrived.  So this look like a success, and I am excited to see how
  60 this develops the next few days. :) I really hope this can allow us
  61 all to sleep a bit longer in the morning.&lt;/p&gt;
  62
  63 &lt;p&gt;A nice advantage of this setup is that we can remote control when
  64 to tell the kids to get up.  We do not have to wait until 07:00, and
  65 can also delay it if we want to.&lt;/p&gt;
  66 </description>
  67         </item>
  68
  69         <item>
  70                 <title>Hva stemte hver stortingsrepresentant i voteringene om datalagringsdirektivet?</title>
  71                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_stemte_hver_stortingsrepresentant_i_voteringene_om_datalagringsdirektivet_.html</link>
  72                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_stemte_hver_stortingsrepresentant_i_voteringene_om_datalagringsdirektivet_.html</guid>
  73                 <pubDate>Sat, 9 Feb 2013 18:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
  74                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Nytt stortingsvalg er på trappene, og folket får igjen mulighet til
  75 å påvirke sammensetningen i vår lovgivende forsamling.  Da er det
  76 relevant å vite hvilke representanter og partier som har støttet
  77 innføringen av brev- og besøkskontroll av hele den norske
  78 befolkningen, det vil si datalagringsdirektivet.&lt;/p&gt;
  79
  80 &lt;p&gt;Hvis du vil vite hva hver enkelt stortingsrepresentant har stemt i
  81 stortingsvoteringene om datalagringsdirektivet, så har nettstedet til
  82 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.holderdeord.no/&quot;&gt;Holder De Ord&lt;/a&gt; den (så vidt jeg
  83 vet) eneste komplette oversikten på sin temaside om
  84 &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.holderdeord.no/issues/innfore-datalagringsdirektivet&quot;&gt;innføringen
  85 av datalagringsdirektivet&lt;/a&gt;.  Den har detaljene fra de 11 relevante
  86 forslagene som har vært fremmet så lagt.  De har vært votert over
  87 2011-04-04, 2011-04-11, 2012-06-11, 2012-10-05 og 2012-12-06.&lt;/p&gt;
  88
  89 &lt;p&gt;Hvis du lurer på hva som er problemet med datalagringsdirektivet,
  90 anbefaler jeg å lese &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uhuru.biz/?cat=84&quot;&gt;artiklene
  91 fra Jon Wessel-Aas&lt;/a&gt; om temaet, samt informasjon fra foreningen
  92 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digitaltpersonvern.no/&quot;&gt;Digitalt
  93 Personvern&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  94 </description>
  95         </item>
  96
  97         <item>
  98                 <title>Økt overvåkning applauderes igjen av Arbeiderpartiet, Høyre og Fremskrittspartiet</title>
  99                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_kt_overv_kning_applauderes_igjen_av_Arbeiderpartiet__H_yre_og_Fremskrittspartiet.html</link>
 100                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_kt_overv_kning_applauderes_igjen_av_Arbeiderpartiet__H_yre_og_Fremskrittspartiet.html</guid>
 101                 <pubDate>Mon, 4 Feb 2013 00:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
 102                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg ser med gru at Arbeiderpartiet, Høyre og Fremskrittspartiet
 103 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Positive-til-mer-smuglerovervaking-7110348.html&quot;&gt;applauderer
 104 tollvesenets forslag&lt;/a&gt; om å øke overvåkningen i Norge nok et hakk.
 105 Det er ikke så rart, da de som uttaler seg jo også har støttet
 106 innføringen av datalagringsdirektivet eller i hvert fall ikke veldig
 107 aktivt har motarbeidet det.  Innføringen av datalagringsdirektivet er
 108 en lovendring som innebærer brev og besøkskontroll for hele
 109 befolkningen.&lt;/p&gt;
 110
 111 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Saker/Sak/?p=48717&quot;&gt;Datalagringsdirektivet&lt;/a&gt;
 112 har vært oppe til votering i stortinget tre ganger så langt.  Det ble
 113 &lt;a href=&quot;http://svartelisten.org/&quot;&gt;vedtatt første gang 2011-04-04&lt;/a&gt;
 114 og
 115 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/holderdeord/hdo-folketingparser/blob/master/data/votering-2011-04-11.xml&quot;&gt;andre
 116 gang 2011-04-11&lt;/a&gt; (lovendringer voteres to ganger), og forslag om å
 117 stoppe loven ble
 118 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Saker/Sak/Voteringsoversikt/?p=53844&amp;dnid=1&quot;&gt;nedstemt
 119 2012-12-06&lt;/a&gt; (se også
 120 &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.holderdeord.no/issues/innfore-datalagringsdirektivet&quot;&gt;oversikt fra Holder De
 121 Ord&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
 122
 123 &lt;p&gt;Jan Bøhler i Arbeiderpartiet stemte for å innføre
 124 datalagringsdirektivet i lovverket i første votering, var ikke
 125 tilstede i andre votering og støttet loven i tredje votering.  André
 126 Oktay Dahl i Høyre var ikke til stede i første og andre votering men
 127 støttet loven i tredje votering.  Ulf Leirstein i Fremskrittspartiet
 128 stemte mot loven i første votering men var ikke til stede i andre og
 129 tredje votering.&lt;/p&gt;
 130
 131 &lt;p&gt;Hvis du lurer på hva som er problemet med datalagringsdirektivet,
 132 anbefaler jeg å lese &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uhuru.biz/?cat=84&quot;&gt;artiklene
 133 fra Jon Wessel-Aas&lt;/a&gt; om temaet, samt informasjon fra foreningen
 134 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digitaltpersonvern.no/&quot;&gt;Digitalt
 135 Personvern&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 136
 137 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oppdatering 2013-03-09&lt;/strong&gt;: Endret lenke til Holder De
 138 Ord, som har byttet mange lenker i forbindelse med import av
 139 voteringsdata for 2010-2011.&lt;/p&gt;
 140 </description>
 141         </item>
 142
 143         <item>
 144                 <title>Bitcoin GUI now available from Debian/unstable (and Ubuntu/raring)</title>
 145                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bitcoin_GUI_now_available_from_Debian_unstable__and_Ubuntu_raring_.html</link>
 146                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bitcoin_GUI_now_available_from_Debian_unstable__and_Ubuntu_raring_.html</guid>
 147                 <pubDate>Sat, 2 Feb 2013 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
 148                 <description>&lt;p&gt;My
 149 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_backport_bitcoin_qt_version_0_7_2_2_to_Debian_Squeeze.html&quot;&gt;last
 150 bitcoin related blog post&lt;/a&gt; mentioned that the new
 151 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/bitcoin&quot;&gt;bitcoin package&lt;/a&gt; for
 152 Debian was waiting in NEW.  It was accepted by the Debian ftp-masters
 153 2013-01-19, and have been available in unstable since then.  It was
 154 automatically copied to Ubuntu, and is available in their Raring
 155 version too.&lt;/p&gt;
 156
 157 &lt;p&gt;But there is a strange problem with the build that block this new
 158 version from being available on the i386 and kfreebsd-i386
 159 architectures.  For some strange reason, the autobuilders in Debian
 160 for these architectures fail to run the test suite on these
 161 architectures (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/672524&quot;&gt;BTS #672524&lt;/a&gt;).
 162 We are so far unable to reproduce it when building it manually, and
 163 no-one have been able to propose a fix.  If you got an idea what is
 164 failing, please let us know via the BTS.&lt;/p&gt;
 165
 166 &lt;p&gt;One feature that is annoying me with of the bitcoin client, because
 167 I often run low on disk space, is the fact that the client will exit
 168 if it run short on space (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/696715&quot;&gt;BTS
 169 #696715&lt;/a&gt;).  So make sure you have enough disk space when you run
 170 it. :)&lt;/p&gt;
 171
 172 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 173 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 174 &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&amp;label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 175 </description>
 176         </item>
 177
 178         </channel>
 179 </rss>