Recently I have spent some time evaluating the multimedia browser +
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+ +Recently I have spent some time evaluating the multimedia browser plugins available in Debian Lenny, to see which one we should use by default in Debian Edu. We need an embedded video playing plugin with control buttons to pause or stop the video, and capable of streaming @@ -50,28 +47,26 @@ wonder sites use the proprietary Adobe flash to play video.
For Lenny, we seem to end up with the mplayer plugin. It seem to be the only one fitting our needs. :/
-As part of the work we do in NUUG +
As part of the work we do in NUUG to publish video recordings of our monthly presentations, we provide a page with embedded video for easy access to the recording. Putting a good set of HTML tags together to get working embedded video in all @@ -114,28 +109,26 @@ to find a way to get the URL of the playing video out of Opera, so I am not quite sure it picked the Ogg Theora version of the video. I sure hope it was using the announced Ogg Theora support. :)
-Jeg hadde glede av å overvære FADs lansering av +
Jeg hadde glede av å overvære FADs lansering av Debattsentralen deltemeninger.no under Go Open 2009, og må si jeg ble skuffet over en kommentar fra podiet om ulovlig fildeling. Fikk ikke med meg hvem @@ -152,28 +145,26 @@ som deles og hvilke bruksbegrensninger som gjelder for filene. En rekke filer er lagt ut av rettighetsinnehaver for deling på Internet, og fildeling av slike filer er fullt ut lovlig.
-Aftenposten melder at nasjonalbiblioteket og Kopinor har gjort en avtale som gjør at eldre bøker kan gjøres @@ -200,28 +191,26 @@ sin aprilspøk, og la ut bøkene som faller i det fri fortløpende.
-Just for fun, I did a search right now on Google for a few file ODF +
Just for fun, I did a search right now on Google for a few file ODF and MS Office based formats (not to be mistaken for ISO or ECMA OOXML), to get an idea of their relative usage. I searched using 'filetype:odt' and equvalent terms, and got these results:
@@ -271,28 +260,26 @@ search done from a machine here in Norway.Interesting difference, not sure what to conclude from these numbers.
-The last few weeks i have had the pleasure of reading a +
The last few weeks i have had the pleasure of reading a thought-provoking collection of essays by Cory Doctorow, on topics touching copyright, virtual worlds, the future of man when the conscience mind can be duplicated into a computer and many more. The @@ -305,28 +292,26 @@ epub-version from fbreader and my N810. I strongly recommend this book.
-Thanks to +
Thanks to todays opengeodata blog entry, I just discovered that the OpenStreetmap.org site have gotten @@ -343,28 +328,26 @@ alternative for them because the front page lacked routing support, and I hope their needs will be catered for when routing show up on the www.openstreetmap.org front page.
-In the Debian +
In the Debian popularity-contest numbers, 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 @@ -405,28 +388,26 @@ 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.
-A few days ago I had the mixed pleasure of bying a new digital +
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. @@ -467,28 +448,26 @@ the issue. The solution is to support the open standards for video, like Ogg Theora, and avoid MPEG-4 and H.264 if you can.
-Hvis det å følge standarder skal ha noen effekt overfor +
Hvis det å følge standarder skal ha noen effekt overfor leverandører, så må slike krav og ønsker komme inn i anbudstekster når systemer kjøpes inn. Har ikke sett noen slike formuleringer i anbud så langt, men har tenkt litt på hva som bør inn. Her er noen ideer og @@ -529,7 +508,7 @@ VT100-spesifikasjonen.
JavaScript-spesifikasjonen til W3C som gjelder.-Alle systemets nettider bør/skal være i henhold til statens +Alle systemets nettsider bør/skal være i henhold til statens standardkatalogs krav om nettsider og følge HTML-standarden som definert av W3C, og validere uten feil hos W3Cs HTML-validator (http://validator.w3.org). Hvis det brukes CSS så bør/skal denne @@ -557,28 +536,26 @@ code, så bruker VT100-terminaler ECMA-48-spesifikasjonen som basis for sin oppførsel. Det kan dermed være et alternativ når en skal spesifisere hvordan seriell-konsoll skal fungere. -
The Gnash project is the +
The Gnash project 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 @@ -621,28 +598,26 @@ people will participate to make this happen. The more money the project gets, the more features it can develop using these funds. :)
-I dag la jeg inn en kommentar på en sak hos NRKBeta +
I dag la jeg inn en kommentar på en sak hos NRKBeta om hvordan TV-serien Blindpassasjer ble laget i forbindelse med at filmene NRK la ut ikke var tilgjengelig i et @@ -784,28 +759,26 @@ NRK1. :)
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Har oppdaget at mange ikke er klar over at OpenStreetmap.org er +
Har oppdaget at mange ikke er klar over at OpenStreetmap.org er tilgjengelig i en rekke forskjellige formater. Her er en liste med eksporter jeg kjenner til for Norge, for de som trenger et fribrukskart til sine tjenester:
@@ -835,28 +808,26 @@ varianter for veibruk og turbruk sommer og vinter.Kartene oppdateres regelmessig, som oftest hver uke. Det skulle dermed være noe for enhver smak.
-In the latest issue of Linux Journal, the readers choices were +
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 @@ -888,31 +859,254 @@ 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.
-The Gnash project is still +the most promising solution for a Free Software Flash implementation. +A few days ago the project +announced +that it will participate in Google Summer of Code. I hope many +students apply, and that some of them succeed in getting AVM2 support +into Gnash.
+ +While at Debconf11, I have several times during discussions +mentioned the issues I believe should be improved in Debian for its +desktop to be useful for more people. The use case for this is my +parents, which are currently running Kubuntu which solve the +issues.
+ +I suspect these four missing features are not very hard to +implement. After all, they are present in Ubuntu, so if we wanted to +do this in Debian we would have a source.
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- Simple GUI based upgrade of packages. When there +are new packages available for upgrades, a icon in the KDE status bar +indicate this, and clicking on it will activate the simple upgrade +tool to handle it. I have no problem guiding both of my parents +through the process over the phone. If a kernel reboot is required, +this too is indicated by the status bars and the upgrade tool. Last +time I checked, nothing with the same features was working in KDE in +Debian. + +
- Simple handling of missing Firefox browser +plugins. When the browser encounter a MIME type it do not +currently have a handler for, it will ask the user if the system +should search for a package that would add support for this MIME type, +and if the user say yes, the APT sources will be searched for packages +advertising the MIME type in their control file (visible in the +Packages file in the APT archive). If one or more packages are found, +it is a simple click of the mouse to add support for the missing mime +type. If the package require the user to accept some non-free +license, this is explained to the user. The entire process make it +more clear to the user why something do not work in the browser, and +make the chances higher for the user to blame the web page authors and +not the browser for any missing features. + +
- Simple handling of missing multimedia codec/format +handlers. When the media players encounter a format or codec +it is not supporting, a dialog pop up asking the user if the system +should search for a package that would add support for it. This +happen with things like MP3, Windows Media or H.264. The selection +and installation procedure is very similar to the Firefox browser +plugin handling. This is as far as I know implemented using a +gstreamer hook. The end result is that the user easily get access to +the codecs that are present from the APT archives available, while +explaining more on why a given format is unsupported by Ubuntu. + +
- Better browser handling of some MIME types. When +displaying a text/plain file in my Debian browser, it will propose to +start emacs to show it. If I remember correctly, when doing the same +in Kunbutu it show the file as a text file in the browser. At least I +know Opera will show text files within the browser. I much prefer the +latter behaviour. + +
There are other nice features as well, like the simplified suite +upgrader, but given that I am the one mostly doing the dist-upgrade, +it do not matter much.
+ +I really hope we could get these features in place for the next +Debian release. It would require the coordinated effort of several +maintainers, but would make the end user experience a lot better.
+ +Ofte har jeg lyst til å laste ned et innslag fra NRKs nettsted for +å se det senere når jeg ikke er på nett, eller for å ha det +tilgjengelig når jeg en gang i fremtiden ønsker å referere til +innslaget selv om NRK har fjernet det fra sine nettsider. I dag fant +jeg et lite script som fikser jobben.
+ +Scriptet er laget av Jan Henning Thorsen og tilgjengelig fra +github, +og gjør det veldig enkelt å laste ned. Kjør nrk-downloader.sh +http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/582810 for å hente ned et enkelt +innslag eller nrk-downloader.sh +http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/kategori/3521 for å laste ned alle +episodene i en serie.
+ +Det er ikke rakettforskning å laste ned NRK-"strømmer", og +tidligere gjorde jeg dette manuelt med mplayer. Scriptet til +Hr. Thorsen gjør det raskere og enklere for meg, men jeg vil ikke si +at det er en revolusjonerende løsning. Jeg mener jo fortsatt at +påstanden fra NRKs ansatte om at det er +vesensforskjellig +å legge tilgjengelig for nedlasting og for streaming er +meningsløs.
+ +In the Squeeze version of +Debian Edu / Skolelinux soon +to be released, users of the system will get their default browser +start page set from LDAP, allowing the system administrator to point +all users to the school web page by updating one setting in LDAP. In +addition to setting the default start page when a machine boots, users +are shown the same page as a welcome page when they log in for the +first time.
+ +The LDAP object dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no have an attribute +labeledURI with "http://www/ LDAP for Debian Edu/Skolelinux" as the +default content. By changing this value to another URL, all users get +to see the page behind this new URL.
+ +An easy way to update it is by using the ldapvi tool. It can be +called as "ldapvi -ZD '(cn=admin)'' to update LDAP with the +new setting.
+ +We have written the code to adjust the default start page and show +the welcome page, and I wonder if there is an easier way to do this +from within Iceweasel instead.
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