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+       <item>
+               <title>Web service to look up HP and Dell computer hardware support status</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_service_to_look_up_HP_and_Dell_computer_hardware_support_status.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_service_to_look_up_HP_and_Dell_computer_hardware_support_status.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 6 Jun 2012 23:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html&quot;&gt;I
+reported how to get&lt;/a&gt; the support status out of Dell using an
+unofficial and undocumented SOAP API, which I since have found out was
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2012-February/045959.html&quot;&gt;discovered
+by Daniel De Marco in february&lt;/a&gt;.  Combined with my web scraping
+code for HP, Dell and IBM
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html&quot;&gt;from
+2009&lt;/a&gt;, I got inspired and wrote
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/&quot;&gt;a
+web service&lt;/a&gt; based on Scraperwiki to make it easy to look up the
+support status and get a machine readable result back.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is what it look like at the moment when asking for the JSON
+output:
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+% GET &lt;a href=&quot;https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&amp;vendor=Dell&amp;servicetag=2v1xwn1&quot;&gt;https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&amp;vendor=Dell&amp;servicetag=2v1xwn1&lt;/a&gt;
+supportstatus({&quot;servicetag&quot;: &quot;2v1xwn1&quot;, &quot;warrantyend&quot;: &quot;2013-11-24&quot;, &quot;shipped&quot;: &quot;2010-11-24&quot;, &quot;scrapestamputc&quot;: &quot;2012-06-06T20:26:56.965847&quot;, &quot;scrapedurl&quot;: &quot;http://143.166.84.118/services/assetservice.asmx?WSDL&quot;, &quot;vendor&quot;: &quot;Dell&quot;, &quot;productid&quot;: &quot;&quot;})
+%
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       

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                <title>Kommentar til artikkel i Adresseavisa som omtaler FiksGataMi</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kommentar_til_artikkel_i_Adresseavisa_som_omtaler_FiksGataMi.html</link>
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-               <title>The cost of ODF and OOXML</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_cost_of_ODF_and_OOXML.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_cost_of_ODF_and_OOXML.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;Hi.  I just noted your
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/04/does-microsoft-office-lock-in-cost-the-uk-government-500-million/index.htm&quot;&gt;http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/04/does-microsoft-office-lock-in-cost-the-uk-government-500-million/index.htm&lt;/a&gt;
-comment:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;They&#39;re all in Danish, not unreasonably, but even
-with the help of Google Translate I can&#39;t find any figures about the
-savings of &quot;moving to a flexible two standard&quot; as claimed by the
-Microsoft email. But I assume it is backed up somewhere, so let&#39;s take
-it, and the £500 million figure for the UK, on trust.&quot;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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. :)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;See
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12_vl02.php&quot;&gt;http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12_vl02.php&lt;/a&gt;
-and
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12.php&quot;&gt;http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12.php&lt;/a&gt;
-for background information.  Norwegian only, sorry. :)&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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