+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_service_to_look_up_HP_and_Dell_computer_hardware_support_status.html">Web service to look up HP and Dell computer hardware support status</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 6th June 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>A few days ago
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html">I
+reported how to get</a> the support status out of Dell using an
+unofficial and undocumented SOAP API, which I since have found out was
+<a href="http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2012-February/045959.html">discovered
+by Daniel De Marco in february</a>. Combined with my web scraping
+code for HP, Dell and IBM
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html">from
+2009</a>, I got inspired and wrote
+<a href="https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/">a
+web service</a> based on Scraperwiki to make it easy to look up the
+support status and get a machine readable result back.</p>
+
+<p>This is what it look like at the moment when asking for the JSON
+output:
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+% GET <a href="https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&vendor=Dell&servicetag=2v1xwn1">https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&vendor=Dell&servicetag=2v1xwn1</a>
+supportstatus({"servicetag": "2v1xwn1", "warrantyend": "2013-11-24", "shipped": "2010-11-24", "scrapestamputc": "2012-06-06T20:26:56.965847", "scrapedurl": "http://143.166.84.118/services/assetservice.asmx?WSDL", "vendor": "Dell", "productid": ""})
+%
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>It currently support Dell and HP, and I am hoping for help to add
+support for other vendors. The python source is available on
+Scraperwiki and I welcome help in adding more features.</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/nuug">nuug</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
<div class="entry">
<div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kommentar_til_artikkel_i_Adresseavisa_som_omtaler_FiksGataMi.html">Kommentar til artikkel i Adresseavisa som omtaler FiksGataMi</a></div>
<div class="date"> 2nd June 2012</div>
</div>
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- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_cost_of_ODF_and_OOXML.html">The cost of ODF and OOXML</a></div>
- <div class="date">26th May 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>I just come across a blog post from Glyn Moody reporting the
-claimed cost from Microsoft on requiring ODF to be used by the UK
-government. I just sent him an email to let him know that his
-assumption are most likely wrong. Sharing it here in case some of my
-blog readers have seem the same numbers float around in the UK.</p>
-
-<p><blockquote> <p>Hi. I just noted your
-<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/04/does-microsoft-office-lock-in-cost-the-uk-government-500-million/index.htm">http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/04/does-microsoft-office-lock-in-cost-the-uk-government-500-million/index.htm</a>
-comment:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>"They're all in Danish, not unreasonably, but even
-with the help of Google Translate I can't find any figures about the
-savings of "moving to a flexible two standard" as claimed by the
-Microsoft email. But I assume it is backed up somewhere, so let's take
-it, and the £500 million figure for the UK, on trust."
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>I can tell you that the Danish reports are inflated. I believe it is
-the same reports that were used in the Norwegian debate around 2007,
-and Gisle Hannemyr (a well known IT commentator in Norway) had a look
-at the content. In short, the reason it is claimed that using ODF
-will be so costly, is based on the assumption that this mean every
-existing document need to be converted from one of the MS Office
-formats to ODF, transferred to the receiver, and converted back from
-ODF to one of the MS Office formats, and that the conversion will cost
-10 minutes of work time for both the sender and the receiver. In
-reality the sender would have a tool capable of saving to ODF, and the
-receiver would have a tool capable of reading it, and the time spent
-would at most be a few seconds for saving and loading, not 20 minutes
-of wasted effort.</p>
-
-<p>Microsoft claimed all these costs were saved by allowing people to
-transfer the original files from MS Office instead of spending 10
-minutes converting to ODF. :)</p>
-
-<p>See
-<a href="http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12_vl02.php">http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12_vl02.php</a>
-and
-<a href="http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12.php">http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12.php</a>
-for background information. Norwegian only, sorry. :)</p>
-</blockquote></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/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>.
-
-
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