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Web service to look up HP and Dell computer hardware support status
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6th June 2012
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A few days ago +I +reported how to get the support status out of Dell using an +unofficial and undocumented SOAP API, which I since have found out was +discovered +by Daniel De Marco in february. Combined with my web scraping +code for HP, Dell and IBM +from +2009, I got inspired and wrote +a +web service based on Scraperwiki to make it easy to look up the +support status and get a machine readable result back.

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This is what it look like at the moment when asking for the JSON +output: + +

+% GET https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&vendor=Dell&servicetag=2v1xwn1
+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": ""})
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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.

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+ + + Tags: english, nuug. + + +
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Kommentar til artikkel i Adresseavisa som omtaler FiksGataMi
2nd June 2012
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The cost of ODF and OOXML
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26th May 2012
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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.

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Hi. I just noted your -http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/04/does-microsoft-office-lock-in-cost-the-uk-government-500-million/index.htm -comment:

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"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." -

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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.

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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. :)

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See -http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12_vl02.php -and -http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12.php -for background information. Norwegian only, sorry. :)

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