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  23       <div class="title"><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></div>
  24       <div class="date">10th January 2013</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>As part of my investigation on how to improve the support in Debian
  26 for hardware dongles, I dug up my old Mark and Spencer USB Rocket
  27 Launcher and updated the Debian package
  28 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/pymissile">pymissile</a> to make
  29 sure udev will fix the device permissions when it is plugged in.  I
  30 also added a "Modaliases" header to test it in the Debian archive and
  31 hopefully make the package be proposed by jockey in Ubuntu when a user
  32 plug in his rocket launcher.  In the process I moved the source to a
  33 git repository under collab-maint, to make it easier for any DD to
  34 contribute.  <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pymissile/">Upstream</a>
  35 is not very active, but the software still work for me even after five
  36 years of relative silence.  The new git repository is not listed in
  37 the uploaded package yet, because I want to test the other changes a
  38 bit more before I upload the new version.  If you want to check out
  39 the new version with a .desktop file included, visit the
  40 <a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/pymissile.git">gitweb
  41 view</a> or use "<tt>git clone
  42 git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/pymissile.git</tt>".</p>
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  47         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>.
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  54     <div class="entry">
  55       <div class="title"><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></div>
  56       <div class="date"> 9th January 2013</div>
  57       <div class="body"><p>One thing that annoys me with Debian and Linux distributions in
  58 general, is that there is a great package management system with the
  59 ability to automatically install software packages by downloading them
  60 from the distribution mirrors, but no way to get it to automatically
  61 install the packages I need to use the hardware I plug into my
  62 machine.  Even if the package to use it is easily available from the
  63 Linux distribution.  When I plug in a LEGO Mindstorms NXT, it could
  64 suggest to automatically install the python-nxt, nbc and t2n packages
  65 I need to talk to it.  When I plug in a Yubikey, it could propose the
  66 yubikey-personalization package.  The information required to do this
  67 is available, but no-one have pulled all the pieces together.</p>
  68
  69 <p>Some years ago, I proposed to
  70 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg01206.html">use
  71 the discover subsystem to implement this</a>.  The idea is fairly
  72 simple:
  73
  74 <ul>
  75
  76 <li>Add a desktop entry in /usr/share/autostart/ pointing to a program
  77   starting when a user log in.</li>
  78
  79 <li>Set this program up to listen for kernel events emitted when new
  80   hardware is inserted into the computer.</li>
  81
  82 <li>When new hardware is inserted, look up the hardware ID in a
  83   database mapping to packages, and take note of any non-installed
  84   packages.</li>
  85
  86 <li>Show a message to the user proposing to install the discovered
  87   package, and make it easy to install it.</li>
  88
  89 </ul>
  90
  91 <p>I am not sure what the best way to implement this is, but my
  92 initial idea was to use dbus events to discover new hardware, the
  93 discover database to find packages and
  94 <a href="http://www.packagekit.org/">PackageKit</a> to install
  95 packages.</p>
  96
  97 <p>Yesterday, I found time to try to implement this idea, and the
  98 draft package is now checked into
  99 <a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/">the
 100 Debian Edu subversion repository</a>.  In the process, I updated the
 101 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/discover-data.html">discover-data</a>
 102 package to map the USB ids of LEGO Mindstorms and Yubikey devices to
 103 the relevant packages in Debian, and uploaded a new version
 104 2.2013.01.09 to unstable.  I also discovered that the current
 105 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/discover.html">discover</a>
 106 package in Debian no longer discovered any USB devices, because
 107 /proc/bus/usb/devices is no longer present.  I ported it to use
 108 libusb as a fall back option to get it working.  The fixed package
 109 version 2.1.2-6 is now in experimental (didn't upload it to unstable
 110 because of the freeze).</p>
 111
 112 <p>With this prototype in place, I can insert my Yubikey, and get this
 113 desktop notification to show up (only once, the first time it is
 114 inserted):</p>
 115
 116 <p align="center"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-01-09-hw-autoinstall.png"></p>
 117
 118 <p>For this prototype to be really useful, some way to automatically
 119 install the proposed packages by pressing the "Please install
 120 program(s)" button should to be implemented.</p>
 121
 122 <p>If this idea seem useful to you, and you want to help make it
 123 happen, please help me update the discover-data database with mappings
 124 from hardware to Debian packages.  Check if 'discover-pkginstall -l'
 125 list the package you would like to have installed when a given
 126 hardware device is inserted into your computer, and report bugs using
 127 reportbug if it isn't.  Or, if you know of a better way to provide
 128 such mapping, please let me know.</p>
 129
 130 <p>This prototype need more work, and there are several questions that
 131 should be considered before it is ready for production use.  Is dbus
 132 the correct way to detect new hardware?  At the moment I look for HAL
 133 dbus events on the system bus, because that is the events I could see
 134 on my Debian Squeeze KDE desktop.  Are there better events to use?
 135 How should the user be notified?  Is the desktop notification
 136 mechanism the best option, or should the background daemon raise a
 137 popup instead?  How should packages be installed?  When should they
 138 not be installed?</p>
 139
 140 <p>If you want to help getting such feature implemented in Debian,
 141 please send me an email. :)</p>
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 144
 145
 146         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>.
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 154       <div class="title"><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></div>
 155       <div class="date"> 2nd January 2013</div>
 156       <div class="body"><p>During Christmas, I have worked a bit on the Debian support for
 157 <a href="http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx">LEGO Mindstorm
 158 NXT</a>.  My son and I have played a bit with my NXT set, and I
 159 discovered I had to build all the tools myself because none were
 160 already in Debian Squeeze.  If Debian support for LEGO is something
 161 you care about, please join me on the IRC channel
 162 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-lego">#debian-lego</a> (server
 163 irc.debian.org).  There is a lot that could be done to improve the
 164 Debian support for LEGO designers.  For example both CAD software
 165 and Mindstorm compilers are missing. :)</p>
 166
 167 <p>Update 2012-01-03: A
 168 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners">project page</a>
 169 including links to Lego related packages is now available.</p>
 170 </div>
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 172
 173
 174         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>.
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 181     <div class="entry">
 182       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenker_for_2013_01_01.html">Lenker for 2013-01-01</a></div>
 183       <div class="date"> 1st January 2013</div>
 184       <div class="body"><p>Her er noen lenker til tekster jeg har satt pris på å lese den
 185 siste måneden.</p>
 186
 187 <ul>
 188
 189 <li>2012-12-07
 190   <a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article262047.ece">Myter og
 191   FUD om fri programvare</a> av min venn Christer Gundersen som
 192   kommenterer noen av de påstandene som er spredt via Computerworld
 193   Norge de siste månedene.</li>
 194
 195 <li>BankID er et opplegg der utsteder (dvs. banken eller dens
 196   leverandør) sitter på alt som trengs for å bruke BankID, men har
 197   lovet å ikke bruke den unntatt på oppdrag fra deg.  Det er greit nok
 198   for banktjenester, der banken allerede har full kontroll over
 199   resultatet, men problematisk når det gjelder tilgang til
 200   helseopplysninger og avtaleinngåelse med andre enn banken.  Jeg
 201   håper protestene brer om seg.
 202
 203   <ul>
 204
 205   <li>2012-12-11 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/BankID-blottlegger-helseopplysninger-7067148.html">BankID
 206     blottlegger helseopplysninger</a></li>
 207
 208   <li>2012-12-07 <a href="http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.9695027">-
 209     Helseopplysningene ikke sikre med Bank-ID</a></li>
 210
 211   <li>2012-12-07
 212     <a href="https://www.bankid.no/Presse-og-nyheter/Nyhetsarkiv/2012/Papeker-alvorlige-men-kjente-utfordringer/">Påpeker
 213     alvorlige, men kjente utfordringer</a> er den offisielle
 214     holdningen til de som lager BankID.</li>
 215
 216   <li>2012-12-08
 217     <a href="http://www.tnp.no/norway/panorama/3419-ntnu-researcher-warns-against-security-of-bank-id-password">NTNU
 218       Researcher Warns against Security of Bank ID Password</a>
 219
 220   </ul>
 221
 222 <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>
 223
 224 <li>2012-12-11
 225   <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/Realfagsdodaren-7067173.html">Realfagsdødaren</a>
 226
 227 <li>2012-12-21
 228   <a href="http://www.bt.no/nyheter/innenriks/112/--Forventningene-er-for-hoye-2816450.html">-
 229   Noen må bli skuffet</a> - Politiet i Bergen forteller hvor lavt de
 230   prioriterer hverdagskriminalitet.</li>
 231
 232 <li>2012-05-03
 233   <a href="http://e24.no/jobb/kripos-ansatt-doemt-for-snoking-for-venn/20208585">
 234   Kripos-ansatt dømt for snoking for venn</A> - viser hvor svak
 235   reaksjonen blir når politiet misbruker innsamlet informasjon.  En
 236   forvarsel på konsekvensene av nasjonal brev- og besøkskontroll -
 237   ofte kalt Datalagringsdirektivet.</li>
 238
 239 <li>2012-12-14
 240   <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/12/14/kultur/debatt/kronikk/jul/ensomhet/24838541/">Å
 241   smøre en forskjell</a> - om ensomhet og jul.</li>
 242
 243 <li>2012-12-18
 244   <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/n-krise-av-gangen_-takk-7072452.html">Én
 245   krise av gangen, takk!</a>
 246
 247
 248 <li>2012-12-17
 249   <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/NAV-Et-mangehodet-monster--7072165.html">NAV:
 250   Et mangehodet monster</a></li>
 251
 252 <li>2011-01-12
 253   <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/01/12/kultur/debatt/kronikk/personvern/15027203/">Pasienter
 254   uten vern</a> - forteller litt om hvordan Norsk Pasientregister og
 255   andre helseregister raderer bort pasienters privatsfære.</li>
 256
 257
 258 <li>2012-12-19
 259   <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/Hvorfor-er-barnefamilier-fattige-7073951.html">Hvorfor
 260   er barnefamilier fattige?</a></li>
 261
 262 <li>2012-12-25
 263   <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/spaltister/Den-skjulte-minoriteten--konservative-kristne-i-Norge-7075518.html">Den
 264   skjulte minoriteten – konservative kristne i Norge</a> - kronikk av
 265   Bjørn Stærk fra aftenposten</li>
 266
 267 <li>2009-05-04
 268   <a href="http://deltemeninger.no/-/bulletin/show/303429_folkebiblioteket-2-0?ref=checkpoint">Folkebiblioteket
 269   2.0</a> - Min venn Sturle om opphavsrett og Internett, i debatt med
 270   Olav Torvund.</li>
 271
 272 </ul>
 273
 274 <p>Og et godt nytt år til dere alle!</p>
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 279         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bankid">bankid</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/lenker">lenker</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>.
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 287       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Christmas_present_for_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu.html">A Christmas present for Skolelinux / Debian Edu</a></div>
 288       <div class="date">28th December 2012</div>
 289       <div class="body"><p>I was happy to discover a few days ago that the
 290 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux / Debian Edu</a>
 291 project also this year received a Christmas present from Another
 292 Agency in Trondheim.  NOK 1000,- showed up on our donation account
 293 December 24th.  I want to express our thanks for this very welcome
 294 present.  As the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is very short on
 295 funding these days, and thus lack the money to do regular developer
 296 gatherings, this donation was most welcome.  One developer gathering
 297 cost around NOK 15&nbsp;000,-, so we need quite a lot more to keep the
 298 development pace we want.  Thus, I hope their example this year is
 299 followed by many others. :)</p>
 300
 301 <p>The public list of donors can be found on
 302 <a href="http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">the
 303 donation page</a> for the project, which also contain instructions if
 304 you want to donate to the project.</p>
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 308
 309         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>.
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 316     <div class="entry">
 317       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_backport_bitcoin_qt_version_0_7_2_2_to_Debian_Squeeze.html">How to backport bitcoin-qt version 0.7.2-2 to Debian Squeeze</a></div>
 318       <div class="date">25th December 2012</div>
 319       <div class="body"><p>Let me start by wishing you all marry Christmas and a happy new
 320 year!  I hope next year will prove to be a good year.</p>
 321
 322 <p><a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">Bitcoin</a>, the digital
 323 decentralised "currency" that allow people to transfer bitcoins
 324 between each other with minimal overhead, is a very interesting
 325 experiment.  And as I wrote a few days ago, the bitcoin situation in
 326 <a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> is about to improve a bit.
 327 The <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/bitcoin">new debian source
 328 package</a> (version 0.7.2-2) was uploaded yesterday, and is waiting
 329 in <a href="http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html">the NEW queue</A>
 330 for one of the ftpmasters to approve the new bitcoin-qt package
 331 name.</p>
 332
 333 <p>And thanks to the great work of Jonas and the rest of the bitcoin
 334 team in Debian, you can easily test the package in Debian Squeeze
 335 using the following steps to get a set of working packages:</p>
 336
 337 <blockquote><pre>
 338 git clone git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/bitcoin
 339 cd bitcoin
 340 DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noupnp fakeroot debian/rules clean
 341 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noupnp git-buildpackage --git-ignore-new
 342 </pre></blockquote>
 343
 344 <p>You might have to install some build dependencies as well.  The
 345 list of commands should give you two packages, bitcoind and
 346 bitcoin-qt, ready for use in a Squeeze environment.  Note that the
 347 client will download the complete set of bitcoin "blocks", which need
 348 around 5.6 GiB of data on my machine at the moment.  Make sure your
 349 ~/.bitcoin/ directory have lots of spare room if you want to download
 350 all the blocks.  The client will warn if the disk is getting full, so
 351 there is not really a problem if you got too little room, but you will
 352 not be able to get all the features out of the client.</p>
 353
 354 <p>As usual, if you use bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 355 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 356 <b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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 358       <div class="tags">
 359
 360
 361         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 368     <div class="entry">
 369       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_word_on_bitcoin_support_in_Debian.html">A word on bitcoin support in Debian</a></div>
 370       <div class="date">21st December 2012</div>
 371       <div class="body"><p>It has been a while since I wrote about
 372 <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">bitcoin</a>, the decentralised
 373 peer-to-peer based crypto-currency, and the reason is simply that I
 374 have been busy elsewhere.  But two days ago, I started looking at the
 375 state of <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/bitcoin">bitcoin in
 376 Debian</a> again to try to recover my old bitcoin wallet.  The package
 377 is now maintained by a
 378 <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-bitcoin/">team of
 379 people</a>, and the grunt work had already been done by this team.  We
 380 owe a huge thank you to all these team members. :)
 381 But I was sad to discover that the bitcoin client is missing in
 382 Wheezy.  It is only available in Sid (and an outdated client from
 383 backports).  The client had several RC bugs registered in BTS blocking
 384 it from entering testing.  To try to help the team and improve the
 385 situation, I spent some time providing patches and triaging the bug
 386 reports.  I also had a look at the bitcoin package available from Matt
 387 Corallo in a
 388 <a href="https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin">PPA for
 389 Ubuntu</a>, and moved the useful pieces from that version into the
 390 Debian package.</p>
 391
 392 <p>After checking with the main package maintainer Jonas Smedegaard on
 393 IRC, I pushed several patches into the collab-maint git repository to
 394 improve the package.  It now contains fixes for the RC issues (not from
 395 me, but fixed by Scott Howard), build rules for a Qt GUI client
 396 package, konqueror support for the bitcoin: URI and bash completion
 397 setup.  As I work on Debian Squeeze, I also created
 398 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-bitcoin-devel/Week-of-Mon-20121217/000041.html">a
 399 patch to backport</a> the latest version.  Jonas is going to look at
 400 it and try to integrate it into the git repository before uploading a
 401 new version to unstable.
 402
 403 <p>I would very much like bitcoin to succeed, to get rid of the
 404 centralized control currently exercised in the monetary system.  I
 405 find it completely unacceptable that the USA government is collecting
 406 transaction data for almost all international money transfers (most are done in USD and transaction logs shipped to the spooks), and
 407 that the major credit card companies can block legal money
 408 transactions to Wikileaks.  But for bitcoin to succeed, more people
 409 need to use bitcoins, and more people need to accept bitcoins when
 410 they sell products and services.  Improving the bitcoin support in
 411 Debian is a small step in the right direction, but not enough.
 412 Unfortunately the user experience when browsing the web and wanting to
 413 pay with bitcoin is still not very good.  The bitcoin: URI is a step
 414 in the right direction, but need to work in most or every browser in
 415 use.  Also the bitcoin-qt client is too heavy to fire up to do a
 416 quick transaction.  I believe there are other clients available, but
 417 have not tested them.</p>
 418
 419 <p>My
 420 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Now_accepting_bitcoins___anonymous_and_distributed_p2p_crypto_money.html">experiment
 421 with bitcoins</a> showed that at least some of my readers use bitcoin.
 422 I received 20.15 BTC so far on the address I provided in my blog two
 423 years ago, as can be
 424 <a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">seen
 425 on the blockexplorer service</a>.  Thank you everyone for your
 426 donation.  The blockexplorer service demonstrates quite well that
 427 bitcoin is not quite anonymous and untracked. :) I wonder if the
 428 number of users have gone up since then.  If you use bitcoin and want
 429 to show your support of my activity, please send Bitcoin donations to
 430 the same address as last time,
 431 <b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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 433       <div class="tags">
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 435
 436         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 443     <div class="entry">
 444       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Piratpartiet_p__opphavs_retrett_.html">Piratpartiet på opphavs-retrett?</a></div>
 445       <div class="date">19th December 2012</div>
 446       <div class="body"><p>Jeg ble overrasket over å se at Piratpartiet i
 447 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/Piratpartiet-stiller-til-Stortingsvalget-7073298.html">Aftenposten</a>
 448 er referert på følgende:</p>
 449
 450 <blockquote>
 451 Når det gjelder retten til opphavsrett for kulturproduktene, mener
 452 Piratpartiet av levetid + 14 år er tilfredsstillende.
 453 </blockquote>
 454
 455 <p>Det betyr en vernetid langt ut over det kommersielle livet til de
 456 aller fleste opphavsrettsbeskyttede verker, og er i strid med slik i
 457 hvert fall jeg har tolket punkt 5 i
 458 <a href="http://people.opera.com/howcome/2012/piratpartiet/kjerneprogram.html">kjerneprogrammet
 459 til Piratpartiet</a>:</p>
 460
 461 <blockquote>
 462 <p><strong>5: Åndsverk og patenter: tilbake til start</strong></p>
 463
 464 <table border="1">
 465 <tr><th>forslag:</th><td>14 års opphavsrett og ingen
 466 programvarepatenter</td></tr>
 467
 468 <tr><th>grunn:</th><td>Den første loven om opphavsrett spesifiserte 14
 469 års vernetid. Senere har mediabransjens lobbyister stadig presset
 470 loven mot lengre vern, nå er det 70 år etter forfatters død. Dette
 471 gjør at mange verk glemmes og går tapt, noe som er skadelig for norsk
 472 språk og kultur. Vi til tilbake til start: 14 års
 473 vernetid. Patentloven sier klart at dataprogrammer ikke kan
 474 patenteres. Likevel klarer patentadvokater å lure gjennom
 475 programvarepatenter. Slike patenter gjør dingsene våre dyrere og kan i
 476 enkelte tilfelle stoppe dem helt.</th></tr>
 477 </table>
 478 </blockquote>
 479
 480 <p>Den opprinnelige opphavsretten var på 14 år totalt, ikke 14 år
 481 etter opphavspersonens død.  Jeg tenkte først dette kanskje var
 482 feilsitering fra Aftenposten, men jeg finner samme påstand i en <a
 483 href="http://piratpartietnorge.org/om-gramo-og-piratpolitikken/">bloggpost
 484 fra Geir Aaslid</a> på Piratpartietes offisielle nettsider.  Der
 485 skriver han følgende:</p>
 486
 487 <blockquote>
 488 Hva vi gjør med opphavsretten er mer komplisert fordi den omfavner så
 489 mange bransjer, med ulike behov. Enhver reform er en forbedring men
 490 det er nærliggende å anta at en opphavsrett på levetid + 14 år er
 491 fullt ut tilfredstillende for musikk, film, litteratur og spill.
 492 </blockquote>
 493
 494 <p>Det virker dermed på meg som om Piratpartiet allerede har gjort
 495 retrett fra sin beundringsverdige holdning om at det holdt med 14 års
 496 total vernetid, til sin nye som tar utgangspunkt i levetiden til
 497 opphavspersonen.  Jeg håper det baserer seg på en misforståelse hos
 498 piratlederen som blir korrigert tilbake til 14 års total vernetid før
 499 partiet stiller til valg.</p>
 500
 501 <p>Hvis du lurer på hvilke problemer lang vernetid bringer med seg,
 502 anbefaler jeg å lese boken <a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free
 503 Culture</a> av Lawrence Lessig.  Jeg og en liten gruppe andre er igang
 504 med å
 505 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">oversette
 506 boken til bokmål</a> og tar gjerne imot hjelp med oversettelse og
 507 korrekturlesing.</p>
 508
 509 <p><strong>Oppdatering 2012-12-20</strong>: Oppdaget at
 510 <a href="http://piratpartietnorge.org/om-gramo-og-piratpolitikken/">bloggposten
 511 til Geir Aaslid</a> er endret siden i går, og nå inneholder følgende
 512 avsnitt i stedet for det jeg siterte over:</p>
 513
 514 <blockquote>
 515 Hva vi gjør med opphavsretten er mer komplisert fordi den omfavner så
 516 mange bransjer, med ulike behov. Enhver reform er en forbedring men
 517 det er nærliggende å anta at en opphavsrett lik levetiden, evt + 14 år
 518 er fullt ut tilfredstillende for mange skapere av musikk, film,
 519 litteratur og spill. Det er for det meste de store forlagene som er
 520 imot enhver reform.
 521 </blockquote>
 522
 523 <p>I tillegg har det dukket opp en setning nederst "Dette dokumentet
 524 er et utkast til svar på et angrep på Piratpartiet fra Gramo. Det
 525 endrer seg derfor over tid og den endelige versjonen er det som blir
 526 publisert på Hardware.no", som tyder på at originalformuleringen ikke
 527 var veloverveid og sitatet i Aftenposten kanskje var basert på en
 528 misforståelse.</p>
 529 </div>
 530       <div class="tags">
 531
 532
 533         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>.
 534
 535
 536       </div>
 537     </div>
 538     <div class="padding"></div>
 539
 540     <div class="entry">
 541       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ledger___double_entry_accounting_using_text_based_storage_format.html">Ledger - double-entry accounting using text based storage format</a></div>
 542       <div class="date">18th December 2012</div>
 543       <div class="body"><p>A few days ago I came across
 544 <a href="http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/hledger/">a blog post from Joey
 545 Hess</a> describing <a href="http://ledger-cli.org/">ledger</a> and
 546 hledger, a text based system for double-entry accounting.  I found it
 547 interesting, as I am involved with several organizations where
 548 accounting is an issue, and I have not really become too friendly with
 549 the different web based systems we use.  I find it hard to find what I
 550 look for in the menus and even harder try to get sensible data out of
 551 the systems.  Ledger seem different.  The accounting data is kept in
 552 text files that can be stored in a version control system, and there
 553
 554 are at least <a href="https://github.com/ledger/ledger/wiki/Ports">five
 555 different implementations</a> able to read the format.  An example
 556 entry look like this, and is simple enough that it will be trivial to
 557 generate entries based on CVS files fetched from the bank:</p>
 558
 559 <blockquote><pre>
 560 2004-05-27 Book Store
 561       Expenses:Books                 $20.00
 562       Liabilities:Visa
 563 </pre></blockquote>
 564
 565 <p>The concept seemed interesting enough for me to check it out and
 566 look for others using it.  I found blog posts from
 567 <a href="http://blog.spang.cc/posts/hledger_rocks_my_world/">Christine
 568 Spang</a>,
 569 <a href="http://bugsplat.info/2010-05-23-keeping-finances-with-ledger.html">Pete
 570 Keen</a>,
 571 <a href="http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2010/11/06/command-line-accounting-with-ledger-and-reckon/">Andrew
 572 Cantino</a> and
 573 <a href="http://blog.iphoting.com/blog/2012/11/29/command-line-double-entry-accounting/">Ronald
 574 Ip</a> describing how they use it, as well as a post from
 575 <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/ledger-cli/r0oWjwbQ9Bo">Bradley
 576 M. Kuhn</a> at the Software Freedom Conservancy.  All seemed like good
 577 recommendations fitting my need.</p>
 578
 579 <p>The <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/ledger.html">ledger</a>
 580 package is available in Debian Squeeze, while the
 581 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/haskell-hledger.html">hledger</a>
 582 package only is available in Debian Sid.  As I use Squeeze, ledger
 583 seemed the best choice to get started.</p>
 584
 585 <p>To get some real data to test on, I wrote a
 586 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/tools/lodo2ledger">web scraper</a> for
 587 <a href="http://www.lodo.no/">LODO</a>, the accounting system used by
 588 the <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a> association, and started to
 589 play with the data set.  I'm not really deeply into accounting, but I
 590 am able to get a simple balance and accounting status for example
 591 using the "<tt>ledger balance</tt>" command.  But I will have to
 592 gather more experience before I know if the ledger way is a good fit
 593 for the organisations I am involved in.</p>
 594 </div>
 595       <div class="tags">
 596
 597
 598         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/nuug">nuug</a>.
 599
 600
 601       </div>
 602     </div>
 603     <div class="padding"></div>
 604
 605     <div class="entry">
 606       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/61_kommuner_lenker_n__til_FiksGataMi_fra_sine_nettsider.html">61 kommuner lenker nå til FiksGataMi fra sine nettsider</a></div>
 607       <div class="date">11th December 2012</div>
 608       <div class="body"><p>For noen dager siden omfavnet nok en kommune NUUGs
 609 <a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/">FiksGataMi</a>.  Med 61 kommuner
 610 som lenker til FiksGataMi fra sine hjemmesider er «markedsandelen» 14%
 611 (av 429 kommuner).  Siden
 612 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/59_kommuner_omfavner_n__FiksGataMi.html">siste
 613 oppdatering i november</a> har kommunene Re og Vågsøy kommet til og
 614 slår følge med kommunene Askim, Askøy, Audnedal, Aure, Balestrand,
 615 Bærum, Eide, Farsund, Flekkefjord, Folldal, Gran, Grue, Hadsel,
 616 Halden, Halsa, Hamar, Hobøl, Holtålen, Hægebostad, Høyanger,
 617 Kongsberg, Kristiansund, Kvinesdal, Kviteseid, Levanger, Lindesnes,
 618 Luster, Lyngdal, Løten, Mandal, Marnardal, Moss, Namsos, Nissedal,
 619 Nordreisa, Randaberg, Rindal, Sel, Sirdal, Skiptvet, Sortland,
 620 Spydeberg, Stange, Stjørdal, Stord, Søgne, Sør-Odal, Tolga, Trysil,
 621 Tynset, Tysvær, Ullensvang Herad, Utsira, Vennesla, Verdal, Vågan,
 622 Vågå, Våler og Åseral.  Oppdatert liste er tilgjengelig fra
 623 <a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/fiksgatami/positivemottakere">NUUGs
 624 wiki</a>.  Kartet er dog ikke oppdatert med de siste kommunene.</p>
 625
 626 <p>Kanskje du bør høre med din kommune om de vil bli mer aktive
 627 brukere av FiksGataMi?  Se
 628 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/40_kommuner_lenker_n__til_FiksGataMi_fra_sine_nettsider___gj_r_din_.html">en
 629 tidligere bloggpost</a> med tips om hvordan det kan gjøres.</p>
 630
 631 <p>I snitt rapporteres det nå via FiksGataMi ca. 60 meldinger fra
 632 innbyggerne i uka om feil på offentlig infrastruktur.</p>
 633 </div>
 634       <div class="tags">
 635
 636
 637         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
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