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                <title>Petter Reinholdtsen</title>
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                <title>Anonym ferdsel er en menneskerett</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;Debatten rundt sporveiselskapet i Oslos (Ruter AS) ønske om
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article3808135.ece&quot;&gt;å
radiomerke med RFID&lt;/a&gt; alle sine kunder og
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/article3809746.ece&quot;&gt;registerere
hvor hver og en av oss beveger oss&lt;/a&gt; pågår, og en ting som har
kommet lite frem i debatten er at det faktisk er en menneskerett å
kunne ferdes anonymt internt i ens eget land.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Fant en grei kilde for dette i et
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.datatilsynet.no/upload/Microsoft%20Word%20-%2009-01399-2%20H+%C2%A9ringsnotat%20-%20Samferdselsdepartementet%20-%20Utkas%C3%94%C3%87%C2%AA.pdf&quot;&gt;skriv
fra Datatilsynet&lt;/a&gt; til Samferdselsdepartementet om tema:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Retten til å ferdes anonymt kan utledes av
menneskerettskonvensjonen artikkel 8 og av EUs personverndirektiv.
Her heter det at enkeltpersoners grunnleggende rettigheter og frihet
må respekteres, særlig retten til privatlivets fred.  I både
personverndirektivet og i den norske personopplysningsloven er
selvråderetten til hver enkelt et av grunnprinsippene, hovedsaklig
uttrykt ved at en må gi et frivillig, informert og uttrykkelig
samtykke til behandling av personopplysninger.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For meg er det viktig at jeg kan ferdes anonymt, og det er litt av
bakgrunnen til at jeg handler med kontanter, ikke har mobiltelefon og
forventer å kunne reise med bil og kollektivtrafikk uten at det blir
registrert hvor jeg har vært.  Ruter angriper min rett til å ferdes
uten radiopeiler med sin innføring av RFID-kort, og dokumenterer sitt
ønske om å registrere hvor kundene befant seg ved å ønske å gebyrlegge
oss som ikke registrerer oss hver gang vi beveger oss med
kollektivtrafikken i Oslo.  Jeg synes det er hårreisende.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Terms of use for video produced by a Canon IXUS 130 digital camera</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 9 Sep 2010 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I had the mixed pleasure of bying a new digital
camera, a Canon IXUS 130.  It was instructive and very disturbing to
be able to verify that also this camera producer have the nerve to
specify how I can or can not use the videos produced with the camera.
Even thought I was aware of the issue, the options with new cameras
are limited and I ended up bying the camera anyway.  What is the
problem, you might ask?  It is software patents, MPEG-4, H.264 and the
MPEG-LA that is the problem, and our right to record our experiences
without asking for permissions that is at risk.

&lt;p&gt;On page 27 of the Danish instruction manual, this section is
written:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This product is licensed under AT&amp;T patents for the MPEG-4 standard
and may be used for encoding MPEG-4 compliant video and/or decoding
MPEG-4 compliant video that was encoded only (1) for a personal and
non-commercial purpose or (2) by a video provider licensed under the
AT&amp;T patents to provide MPEG-4 compliant video.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;No license is granted or implied for any other use for MPEG-4
standard.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In short, the camera producer have chosen to use technology
(MPEG-4/H.264) that is only provided if I used it for personal and
non-commercial purposes, or ask for permission from the organisations
holding the knowledge monopoly (patent) for technology used.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This issue has been brewing for a while, and I recommend you to
read
&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.osnews.com/story/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Video_Art_and_Culture_is_Threatened_by_the_MPEG-LA&quot;&gt;Why
Our Civilization&#39;s Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the
MPEG-LA&lt;/a&gt;&quot; by Eugenia Loli-Queru and
&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://webmink.com/2010/09/03/h-264-and-foss/&quot;&gt;H.264 Is Not
The Sort Of Free That Matters&lt;/a&gt;&quot; by Simon Phipps to learn more about
the issue.  The solution is to support the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition&quot;&gt;free and
open standards&lt;/a&gt; for video, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theora.org/&quot;&gt;Ogg
Theora&lt;/a&gt;, and avoid MPEG-4 and H.264 if you can.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Navteq bruker 3-12 måneder, OpenStreetmap.org trenger noen dager</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 7 Sep 2010 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>
&lt;p&gt;Jeg ble riktig fascinert av
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article3800967.ece&quot;&gt;en
artikkel i Aftenposten&lt;/a&gt; om hvor hardt Navteq jobber for å oppdatere
kartene som brukes i navigasjons-GPSer, der det blant annet heter at
&quot;på grunn av teknikken tar det alt fra tre til tolv måneder før
kartene er oppdatert&quot;.  Når en kjenner hva slags oppdateringshastighet
som er tilgjengelig på
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openstreetmap.org/&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; som
oppdateres på dugnad, blir det litt trist å se hva noe av det beste en
kan kjøpe for penger får til.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Fra en endrer kartdataene i databasen til OpenStreetmap tar det
ca. 15 minutter før endringen er synlig på kartet som alle kan se på
web.  Dernest overføres det daglig til en kartdump som lastes ned av
personen som lager Garmin-kart for Norge ca. en gang i uken.  Med
OpenStreetmap.org og &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikart.no/&quot;&gt;Frikart.no&lt;/a&gt;
kan en altså ha korreksjonene på plass i sin Garmin-GPS i løpet av en
uke.  Det er også av tekniske årsaker at det tar så langt tid.
Jobbene som tegner kartene, henter ut kartdumpene og konverterer til
Garmin-format tar minutter og timer å gjennomføre, slik at de ikke
gjøres kontinuerlig men kun regelmessing.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Some notes on Flash in Debian and Debian Edu</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 4 Sep 2010 10:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://popcon.debian.org/unknown/by_vote&quot;&gt;Debian
popularity-contest numbers&lt;/a&gt;, the adobe-flashplugin package the
second most popular used package that is missing in Debian.  The sixth
most popular is flashplayer-mozilla.  This is a clear indication that
working flash is important for Debian users.  Around 10 percent of the
users submitting data to popcon.debian.org have this package
installed.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In the report written by Lars Risan in August 2008
(«&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.skolelinux.no/Dokumentasjon/Rapporter?action=AttachFile&amp;do=view&amp;target=Skolelinux_i_bruk_rapport_1.0.pdf&quot;&gt;Skolelinux
i bruk – Rapport for Hurum kommune, Universitetet i Agder og
stiftelsen SLX Debian Labs&lt;/a&gt;»), one of the most important problems
schools experienced with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian
Edu/Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; was the lack of working Flash.  A lot of educational
web sites require Flash to work, and lacking working Flash support in
the web browser and the problems with installing it was perceived as a
good reason to stay with Windows.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I once saw a funny and sad comment in a web forum, where Linux was
said to be the retarded cousin that did not really understand
everything you told him but could work fairly well.  This was a
comment regarding the problems Linux have with proprietary formats and
non-standard web pages, and is sad because it exposes a fairly common
understanding of whose fault it is if web pages that only work in for
example Internet Explorer 6 fail to work on Firefox, and funny because
it explain very well how annoying it is for users when Linux
distributions do not work with the documents they receive or the web
pages they want to visit.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is part of the reason why I believe it is important for Debian
and Debian Edu to have a well working Flash implementation in the
distribution, to get at least popular sites as Youtube and Google
Video to working out of the box.  For Squeeze, Debian have the chance
to include the latest version of Gnash that will make this happen, as
the new release 0.8.8 was published a few weeks ago and is resting in
unstable.  The new version work with more sites that version 0.8.7.
The Gnash maintainers have asked for a freeze exception, but the
release team have not had time to reply to it yet.  I hope they agree
with me that Flash is important for the Debian desktop users, and thus
accept the new package into Squeeze.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>My first perl GUI application - controlling a Spykee robot</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;This evening I made my first Perl GUI application.  The last few
days I have worked on a Perl module for controlling my recently
aquired Spykee robots, and the module is now getting complete enought
that it is possible to use it to control the robot driving at least.
It was now time to figure out how to use it to create some GUI to
allow me to drive the robot around.  I picked PerlQt as I have had
positive experiences with the Qt API before, and spent a few minutes
browsing the web for examples.  Using Qt Designer seemed like a short
cut, so I ended up writing the perl GUI using Qt Designer and
compiling it into a perl program using the puic program from
libqt-perl.  Nothing fancy yet, but it got buttons to connect and
drive around.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The perl module I have written provide a object oriented API for
controlling the robot.  Here is an small example on how to use it:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
use Spykee;
Spykee::discover(sub {$robot{$_[0]} = $_[1]});
my $host = (keys %robot)[0];
my $spykee = Spykee-&gt;new();
$spykee-&gt;contact($host, &quot;admin&quot;, &quot;admin&quot;);
$spykee-&gt;left();
sleep 2;
$spykee-&gt;right();
sleep 2;
$spykee-&gt;forward();
sleep 2;
$spykee-&gt;back();
sleep 2;
$spykee-&gt;stop();
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Thanks to the release of the source of the robot firmware, I could
peek into the implementation at the other end to figure out how to
implement the protocol used by the robot.  I&#39;ve implemented several of
the commands the robot understand, but is still missing the camera
support to make it possible to control the robot from remote.  First I
want to implement support for uploading new firmware and configuring
the wireless network, to make it possible to bootstrap a Spykee robot
without the producers Windows and MacOSX software (I only have Linux,
so I had to ask a friend to come over to get the robot testing
going. :).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Will release the source to the public soon, but need to figure out
where to make it available first.  I will add a link to 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/robot/&quot;&gt;the NUUG wiki&lt;/a&gt; for
those that want to check back later to find it.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Forslag i stortinget om å stoppe elektronisk stemmegiving i Norge</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>
&lt;p&gt;Ble tipset i dag om at et forslag om å stoppe forsøkene med
elektronisk stemmegiving utenfor valglokaler er
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Saker/Sak/?p=46616&quot;&gt;til
behandling&lt;/a&gt; i Stortinget.
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stortinget.no/Global/pdf/Representantforslag/2009-2010/dok8-200910-128.pdf&quot;&gt;Forslaget&lt;/a&gt;
er fremmet av Erna Solberg, Michael Tetzschner og Trond Helleland.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Håper det får flertall.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Broken hard link handling with sshfs</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;Just got an email from Tobias Gruetzmacher as a followup on my
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Broken_umask_handling_with_sshfs.html&quot;&gt;previous
post about sshfs&lt;/a&gt;.  He reported another problem with sshfs.  It
fail to handle hard links properly.  A simple way to spot this is to
look at the . and .. entries in the directory tree.  These should have
a link count &gt;1, but on sshfs the count is 1.  I just tested to see
what happen when trying to hardlink, and this fail as well:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;
% ln foo bar
ln: creating hard link `bar&#39; =&gt; `foo&#39;: Function not implemented
%
&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I have not yet found time to implement a test for this in my file
system test code, but believe having working hard links is useful to
avoid surprised unix programs.  Not as useful as working file locking
and symlinks, which are required to get a working desktop, but useful
nevertheless. :)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The latest version of the file system test code is available via
git from
&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/gebi/fs-test&quot;&gt;http://github.com/gebi/fs-test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Sikkerhetsteateret på flyplassene fortsetter</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sikkerhetsteateret_p___flyplassene_fortsetter.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>
&lt;p&gt;Jeg skrev for et halvt år siden hvordan
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sikkerhet__teater__og_hvordan_gj__re_verden_sikrere.html&quot;&gt;samfunnet
kaster bort ressurser på sikkerhetstiltak som ikke fungerer&lt;/a&gt;.  Kom
nettopp over en
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.askthepilot.com/essays-and-stories/terrorism-tweezers-and-terminal-madness-an-essay-on-security/&quot;&gt;historie
fra en pilot fra USA&lt;/a&gt; som kommenterer det samme.  Jeg mistenker det
kun er uvitenhet og autoritetstro som gjør at så få protesterer.  Har
veldig sans for piloten omtalt i &lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article2057501.ece&quot;&gt;Aftenposten&lt;/a&gt; 2007-10-23,
og skulle ønske flere rettet oppmerksomhet mot problemet.  Det gir
ikke meg trygghetsfølelse på flyplassene når jeg ser at
flyplassadministrasjonen kaster bort folk, penger og tid på tull i
stedet for ting som bidrar til reell økning av sikkerheten.  Det
forteller meg jo at vurderingsevnen til de som burde bidra til økt
sikkerhet er svært sviktende, noe som ikke taler godt for de andre
tiltakene.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Mon tro hva som skjer hvis det fantes en enkel brosjyre å skrive ut
fra Internet som forklarte hva som er galt med sikkerhetsopplegget på
flyplassene, og folk skrev ut og la en bunke på flyplassene når de
passerte.  Kanskje det ville fått flere til å få øynene opp for
problemet.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Personlig synes jeg flyopplevelsen er blitt så avskyelig at jeg
forsøker å klare meg med tog, bil og båt for å slippe ubehaget.  Det
er dog noe vanskelig i det langstrakte Norge og for å kunne besøke de
delene av verden jeg ønsker å nå.  Mistenker at flere har det slik, og
at dette går ut over inntjeningen til flyselskapene.  Det er antagelig
en god ting sett fra et miljøperspektiv, men det er en annen sak.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Skolelinux i Osloskolen</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>
&lt;p&gt;Denne høsten skal endelig alle Osloskolene få mulighet til å bruke
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.  Ny IT-løsning
har vært rullet ut i noen måneder nå, og så vidt jeg fikk vite før
sommeren skulle alle skoler ha nytt opplegg på plass før oppstart nå i
høst.  På alle skolene skal en kunne velge ved installasjon om en skal
ha Windows eller Skolelinux på maskinene, og en kan i tillegg
PXE-boote maskinene over nett som tynne klienter eller diskløse
arbeidsstasjoner. Jeg er spent på hvor mange skoler som velger å ta i
bruk Skolelinux, og gleder meg til å se hvordan dette utvikler seg.
Løsningen leveres av
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.logica.no/&quot;&gt;Logica&lt;/a&gt; med
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slxdrift.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux Drift AS&lt;/a&gt; som
underleverandør, og jeg har vært involvert i utviklingen av løsningen
via Skolelinux Drift AS siden prosjektet starter.  Jeg synes det er
fantastisk at Skolelinux er kommet så langt siden vi startet i 2001 at
alle elevene i Osloskolene nå skal få mulighet til å bruke
løsningen.  Jeg håper de vil sette pris på alle de
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.no/linux-signpost/&quot;&gt;fantastiske
brukerprogrammene&lt;/a&gt; som er tilgjengelig i Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Broken umask handling with sshfs</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>
&lt;p&gt;My file system sematics program
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_if_a_file_system_can_be_used_for_home_directories___.html&quot;&gt;presented
a few days ago&lt;/a&gt; is very useful to verify that a file system can
work as a unix home directory,and today I had to extend it a bit.  I&#39;m
looking into alternatives for home directory access here at the
University of Oslo, and one of the options is sshfs.  My friend
Finn-Arne mentioned a while back that they had used sshfs with Debian
Edu, but stopped because of problems.  I asked today what the problems
where, and he mentioned that sshfs failed to handle umask properly.
Trying to detect the problem I wrote this addition to my fs testing
script:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;
mode_t touch_get_mode(const char *name, mode_t mode) {
  mode_t retval = 0;
  int fd = open(name, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, mode);
  if (-1 != fd) {
    unlink(name);
    struct stat statbuf;
    if (-1 != fstat(fd, &amp;statbuf)) {
      retval = statbuf.st_mode &amp; 0x1ff;
    }
    close(fd);
  }
  return retval;
}

/* Try to detect problem discovered using sshfs */
int test_umask(void) {
  printf(&quot;info: testing umask effect on file creation\n&quot;);

  mode_t orig_umask = umask(000);
  mode_t newmode;
  if (0666 != (newmode = touch_get_mode(&quot;foobar&quot;, 0666))) {
    printf(&quot;  error: Wrong file mode %o when creating using mode 666 and umask 000\n&quot;,
           newmode);
  }
  umask(007);
  if (0660 != (newmode = touch_get_mode(&quot;foobar&quot;, 0666))) {
    printf(&quot;  error: Wrong file mode %o when creating using mode 666 and umask 007\n&quot;,
           newmode);
  }

  umask (orig_umask);
  return 0;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
  [...]
  test_umask();
  return 0;
}
&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sure enough.  On NFS to a netapp, I get this result:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;
Testing POSIX/Unix sematics on file system
info: testing symlink creation
info: testing subdirectory creation
info: testing fcntl locking
  Read-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
  Read-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
  Unlocking 1 byte from 1073741824
  Write-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
  Write-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
  Unlocking 2 byte from 1073741824
info: testing umask effect on file creation
&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When mounting the same directory using sshfs, I get this
result:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;
Testing POSIX/Unix sematics on file system
info: testing symlink creation
info: testing subdirectory creation
info: testing fcntl locking
  Read-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
  Read-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
  Unlocking 1 byte from 1073741824
  Write-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
  Write-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
  Unlocking 2 byte from 1073741824
info: testing umask effect on file creation
  error: Wrong file mode 644 when creating using mode 666 and umask 000
  error: Wrong file mode 640 when creating using mode 666 and umask 007
&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So, I can conclude that sshfs is better than smb to a Netapp or a
Windows server, but not good enough to be used as a home
directory.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Update 2010-08-26: Reported the issue in
&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/594498&quot;&gt;BTS report #594498&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Update 2010-08-27: Michael Gebetsroither report that he found the
script so useful that he created a GIT repository and stored it in
&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/gebi/fs-test&quot;&gt;http://github.com/gebi/fs-test&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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