+<div class="padding"></div>
+
+<div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_notes_on_Flash_in_Debian_and_Debian_Edu.html">Some notes on Flash in Debian and Debian Edu</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 2010-09-04 10:10
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="body">
+
+<p>In the <a href="http://popcon.debian.org/unknown/by_vote">Debian
+popularity-contest numbers</a>, 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.</p>
+
+<p>In the report written by Lars Risan in August 2008
+(«<a href="http://wiki.skolelinux.no/Dokumentasjon/Rapporter?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Skolelinux_i_bruk_rapport_1.0.pdf">Skolelinux
+i bruk – Rapport for Hurum kommune, Universitetet i Agder og
+stiftelsen SLX Debian Labs</a>»), one of the most important problems
+schools experienced with <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian
+Edu/Skolelinux</a> 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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <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/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
+
+ </div>
+</div>
+<div class="padding"></div>
+
+<div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html">Terms of use for video produced by a Canon IXUS 130 digital camera</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 2010-09-09 23:55
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="body">
+
+<p>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.
+
+<p>On page 27 of the Danish instruction manual, this section is
+written:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>This product is licensed under AT&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&T patents to provide MPEG-4 compliant video.</p>
+
+<p>No license is granted or implied for any other use for MPEG-4
+standard.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>This issue has been brewing for a while, and I recommend you to
+read
+"<a href="http://www.osnews.com/story/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Video_Art_and_Culture_is_Threatened_by_the_MPEG-LA">Why
+Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the
+MPEG-LA</a>" by Eugenia Loli-Queru and
+"<a href="http://webmink.com/2010/09/03/h-264-and-foss/">H.264 Is Not
+The Sort Of Free That Matters</a>" by Simon Phipps to learn more about
+the issue. The solution is to support the
+<a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">free and
+open standards</a> for video, like <a href="http://www.theora.org/">Ogg
+Theora</a>, and avoid MPEG-4 and H.264 if you can.</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fildeling">fildeling</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</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>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
+
+ </div>
+</div>
+<div class="padding"></div>
+
+<div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Pledge_for_funding_to_the_Gnash_project_to_get_AVM2_support.html">Pledge for funding to the Gnash project to get AVM2 support</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 2010-10-19 14:45
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="body">
+
+<p><a href="http://www.getgnash.org/">The Gnash project</a> is the
+most promising solution for a Free Software Flash implementation. It
+has done great so far, but there is still far to go, and recently its
+funding has dried up. I believe AVM2 support in Gnash is vital to the
+continued progress of the project, as more and more sites show up with
+AVM2 flash files.</p>
+
+<p>To try to get funding for developing such support, I have started
+<a href="http://www.pledgebank.com/gnash-avm2">a pledge</a> with the
+following text:</P>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+
+ <p>"I will pay 100$ to the Gnash project to develop AVM2 support but
+ only if 10 other people will do the same."</p>
+
+ <p>- Petter Reinholdtsen, free software developer</p>
+
+ <p>Deadline to sign up by: 24th December 2010</p>
+
+ <p>The Gnash project need to get support for the new Flash file
+ format AVM2 to work with a lot of sites using Flash on the
+ web. Gnash already work with a lot of Flash sites using the old AVM1
+ format, but more and more sites are using the AVM2 format these
+ days. The project web page is available from
+ http://www.getgnash.org/ . Gnash is a free software implementation
+ of Adobe Flash, allowing those of us that do not accept the terms of
+ the Adobe Flash license to get access to Flash sites.</p>
+
+ <p>The project need funding to get developers to put aside enough
+ time to develop the AVM2 support, and this pledge is my way to try
+ to get this to happen.</p>
+
+ <p>The project accept donations via the OpenMediaNow foundation,
+ <a href="http://www.openmedianow.org/?q=node/32">http://www.openmedianow.org/?q=node/32</a> .</p>
+
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>I hope you will support this effort too. I hope more than 10
+people will participate to make this happen. The more money the
+project gets, the more features it can develop using these funds.
+:)</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+
+ 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/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
+
+ </div>
+</div>
+<div class="padding"></div>
+
+<div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Software_updates_2010_10_24.html">Software updates 2010-10-24</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 2010-10-24 22:45
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="body">
+
+<p>Some updates.</p>
+
+<p>My <a href="http://pledgebank.com/gnash-avm2">gnash pledge</a> to
+raise money for the project is going well. The lower limit of 10
+signers was reached in 24 hours, and so far 13 people have signed it.
+More signers and more funding is most welcome, and I am really curious
+how far we can get before the time limit of December 24 is reached.
+:)</p>
+
+<p>On the #gnash IRC channel on irc.freenode.net, I was just tipped
+about what appear to be a great code coverage tool capable of
+generating code coverage stats without any changes to the source code.
+It is called
+<a href="http://simonkagstrom.github.com/kcov/index.html">kcov</a>,
+and can be used using <tt>kcov <directory> <binary></tt>.
+It is missing in Debian, but the git source built just fine in Squeeze
+after I installed libelf-dev, libdwarf-dev, pkg-config and
+libglib2.0-dev. Failed to build in Lenny, but suspect that is
+solvable. I hope kcov make it into Debian soon.</p>
+
+<p>Finally found time to wrap up the release notes for <a
+href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2010/10/msg00002.html">a
+new alpha release of Debian Edu</a>, and just published the second
+alpha test release of the Squeeze based Debian Edu /
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>
+release. Give it a try if you need a complete linux solution for your
+school, including central infrastructure server, workstations, thin
+client servers and diskless workstations. A nice touch added
+yesterday is RDP support on the thin client servers, for windows
+clients to get a Linux desktop on request.</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <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/multimedia">multimedia</a>.
+
+ </div>
+</div>
+<div class="padding"></div>
+
+<div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Best____ikke_fortelle_noen_at_streaming_er_nedlasting___.html">Best å ikke fortelle noen at streaming er nedlasting...</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 2010-10-30 11:20
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="body">
+
+<p>I dag la jeg inn en kommentar på en sak hos NRKBeta
+<a href="http://nrkbeta.no/2010/10/27/bakom-blindpassasjer-del-1/">om
+hvordan TV-serien Blindpassasjer ble laget</a> i forbindelse med at
+filmene NRK la ut ikke var tilgjengelig i et
+<a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">fritt og
+åpent format</a>. Dette var det jeg skrev publiserte der 07:39.</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+<p>"Vi fikk en kommentar rundt måten streamet innhold er beskyttet fra
+nedlasting. Mange av oss som kan mer enn gjennomsnittet om systemer
+som dette, vet at det stort sett er mulig å lure ut ting med den
+nødvendige forkunnskapen."</p>
+
+<p>Haha. Å streame innhold er det samme som å laste ned innhold, så å
+beskytte en stream mot nedlasting er ikke mulig. Å skrive noe slikt
+er å forlede leseren.</p>
+
+<p>Med den bakgrunn blir forklaringen om at noen rettighetshavere kun
+vil tillate streaming men ikke nedlasting meningsløs.</p>
+
+<p>Anbefaler forresten å lese
+<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/10/drm-is-toxic-to-culture/index.htm">http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/10/drm-is-toxic-to-culture/index.htm</a>
+om hva som ville være konsekvensen hvis digitale avspillingssperrer
+(DRM) fungerte. Det gjør de naturligvis ikke teknisk - det er jo
+derfor de må ha totalitære juridiske beskyttelsesmekanismer på plass,
+men det er skremmende hva samfunnet tillater og NRK er med på å bygge
+opp under.</p>
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Ca. 20 minutter senere får jeg følgende epost fra Anders Hofseth i
+NRKBeta:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+<p>From: Anders Hofseth <XXX@gmail.com>
+<br>To: "pere@hungry.com" <pere@hungry.com>
+<br>Cc: Eirik Solheim <XXX@gmail.com>, Jon Ståle Carlsen <XXX@gmail.com>, Henrik Lied <XXX@gmail.com>
+<br>Subject: Re: [NRKbeta] Kommentar: "Bakom Blindpassasjer: del 1"
+<br>Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:58:44 +0200</p>
+
+<p>Hei Petter.
+<br>Det du forsøker dra igang er egentlig en interessant diskusjon,
+men om vi skal kjøre den i kommentarfeltet her, vil vi kunne bli bedt
+om å fjerne blindpassasjer fra nett- tv og det vil heller ikke bli
+særlig lett å klarere ut noe annet arkivmateriale på lang tid.</p>
+
+<p>Dette er en situasjon NRKbeta ikke ønsker, så kommentaren er
+fjernet og den delen av diskusjonen er avsluttet på nrkbeta, vi antar
+konsekvensene vi beskriver ikke er noe du ønsker heller...</p>
+
+<p>Med hilsen,
+<br>-anders</p>
+
+<p>Ring meg om noe er uklart: 95XXXXXXX</p>
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Ble så fascinert over denne holdningen, at jeg forfattet og sendte
+over følgende svar. I og med at debatten er fjernet fra NRK Betas
+kommentarfelt, så velger jeg å publisere her på bloggen min i stedet.
+Har fjernet epostadresser og telefonnummer til de involverte, for å
+unngå at de tiltrekker seg uønskede direkte kontaktforsøk.</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+<p>From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
+<br>To: Anders Hofseth <XXX@gmail.com>
+<br>Cc: Eirik Solheim <XXX@gmail.com>,
+<br> Jon Ståle Carlsen <XXX@gmail.com>,
+<br> Henrik Lied <XXX@gmail.com>
+<br>Subject: Re: [NRKbeta] Kommentar: "Bakom Blindpassasjer: del 1"
+<br>Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:24:34 +0200</p>
+
+<p>[Anders Hofseth]
+<br>> Hei Petter.</p>
+
+<p>Hei.</p>
+
+<p>> Det du forsøker dra igang er egentlig en interessant diskusjon, men
+<br>> om vi skal kjøre den i kommentarfeltet her, vil vi kunne bli bedt om
+<br>> å fjerne blindpassasjer fra nett- tv og det vil heller ikke bli
+<br>> særlig lett å klarere ut noe annet arkivmateriale på lang tid.</p>
+
+<p>Godt å se at du er enig i at dette er en interessant diskusjon. Den
+vil nok fortsette en stund til. :)</p>
+
+<p>Må innrømme at jeg synes det er merkelig å lese at dere i NRK med
+vitende og vilje ønsker å forlede rettighetshaverne for å kunne
+fortsette å legge ut arkivmateriale.</p>
+
+<p>Kommentarer og diskusjoner i bloggene til NRK Beta påvirker jo ikke
+faktum, som er at streaming er det samme som nedlasting, og at innhold
+som er lagt ut på nett kan lagres lokalt for avspilling når en ønsker
+det.</p>
+
+<p>Det du sier er jo at klarering av arkivmateriale for publisering på
+web krever at en holder faktum skjult fra debattfeltet på NRKBeta.
+Det er ikke et argument som holder vann. :)</p>
+
+<p>> Dette er en situasjon NRKbeta ikke ønsker, så kommentaren er fjernet
+<br>> og den delen av diskusjonen er avsluttet på nrkbeta, vi antar
+<br>> konsekvensene vi beskriver ikke er noe du ønsker heller...</p>
+
+<p>Personlig ønsker jeg at NRK skal slutte å stikke hodet i sanden og
+heller være åpne på hvordan virkeligheten fungerer, samt ta opp kampen
+mot de som vil låse kulturen inne. Jeg synes det er en skam at NRK
+godtar å forlede publikum. Ville heller at NRK krever at innhold som
+skal sendes skal være uten bruksbegresninger og kan publiseres i
+formater som heller ikke har bruksbegresninger (bruksbegresningene til
+H.264 burde få varselbjellene i NRK til å ringe).</p>
+
+<p>At NRK er med på DRM-tåkeleggingen og at det kommer feilaktive
+påstander om at "streaming beskytter mot nedlasting" som bare er egnet
+til å bygge opp om en myte som er skadelig for samfunnet som helhet.</p>
+
+<p>Anbefaler <URL:<a href="http://webmink.com/2010/09/03/h-264-and-foss/">http://webmink.com/2010/09/03/h-264-and-foss/</a>> og en
+titt på
+<URL: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html</a> >.
+for å se hva slags bruksbegresninger H.264 innebærer.</p>
+
+<p>Hvis dette innebærer at NRK må være åpne med at arkivmaterialet ikke
+kan brukes før rettighetshaverene også innser at de er med på å skade
+samfunnets kultur og kollektive hukommelse, så får en i hvert fall
+synliggjort konsekvensene og antagelig mer flammer på en debatt som er
+langt på overtid.</p>
+
+<p>> Ring meg om noe er uklart: XXX</p>
+
+<p>Intet uklart, men ikke imponert over måten dere håndterer debatten på.
+Hadde du i stedet kommet med et tilsvar i kommentarfeltet der en
+gjorde det klart at blindpassasjer-blogpostingen ikke var riktig sted
+for videre diskusjon hadde dere i mine øyne kommet fra det med
+ryggraden på plass.</p>
+
+<p>PS: Interessant å se at NRK-ansatte ikke bruker NRK-epostadresser.</p>
+
+<p>Som en liten avslutning, her er noen litt morsomme innslag om temaet.
+<URL: <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CopyingIsNotTheft">http://www.archive.org/details/CopyingIsNotTheft</a> > og
+<URL: <a href="http://patentabsurdity.com/">http://patentabsurdity.com/</a> > hadde vært noe å kringkaste på
+NRK1. :)</p>
+
+<p>Vennlig hilsen,
+<br>--
+<br>Petter Reinholdtsen</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</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/standard">standard</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
+
+ </div>
+</div>
+<div class="padding"></div>
+
+<div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html">Why isn't Debian Edu using VLC?</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 2010-11-27 11:30
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="body">
+
+<p>In the latest issue of Linux Journal, the readers choices were
+presented, and the winner among the multimedia player were VLC.
+Personally, I like VLC, and it is my player of choice when I first try
+to play a video file or stream. Only if VLC fail will I drag out
+gmplayer to see if it can do better. The reason is mostly the failure
+model and trust. When VLC fail, it normally pop up a error message
+reporting the problem. When mplayer fail, it normally segfault or
+just hangs. The latter failure mode drain my trust in the program.<p>
+
+<p>But even if VLC is my player of choice, we have choosen to use
+mplayer in <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian
+Edu/Skolelinux</a>. The reason is simple. We need a good browser
+plugin to play web videos seamlessly, and the VLC browser plugin is
+not very good. For example, it lack in-line control buttons, so there
+is no way for the user to pause the video. Also, when I
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia">last
+tested the browser plugins</a> available in Debian, the VLC plugin
+failed on several video pages where mplayer based plugins worked. If
+the browser plugin for VLC was as good as the gecko-mediaplayer
+package (which uses mplayer), we would switch.</P>
+
+<p>While VLC is a good player, its user interface is slightly
+annoying. The most annoying feature is its inconsistent use of
+keyboard shortcuts. When the player is in full screen mode, its
+shortcuts are different from when it is playing the video in a window.
+For example, space only work as pause when in full screen mode. I
+wish it had consisten shortcuts and that space also would work when in
+window mode. Another nice shortcut in gmplayer is [enter] to restart
+the current video. It is very nice when playing short videos from the
+web and want to restart it when new people arrive to have a look at
+what is going on.</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <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/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
+
+ </div>
+</div>
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