Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries tagged english

I continue to explore my Kodi installation, and today I wanted to tell it to play a youtube URL I received in a chat, without having to insert search terms using the on-screen keyboard.

It might seem obvious that software created using tax money should be available for everyone to use and improve.

A few days ago, I wondered if there are any privacy respecting health monitors and/or fitness trackers available for sale these days.

Dear lazyweb, I wonder, is there a fitness tracker / health monitor available for sale today that respect the users privacy?

For a while now, I have looked for a sensible way to share images with my family using a self hosted solution, as it is unacceptable to place images from my personal life under the control of strangers working for data hoarders like Google or Dropbox.

Last night, I wrote a recipe to stream a Linux desktop using VLC to a instance of Kodi.

PS: See the followup post for a even better approach.

Five years ago, I measured what the most supported MIME type in Debian was, by analysing the desktop files in all packages in the archive.

Quite regularly, I let my Debian Sid/Unstable chroot stay untouch for a while, and when I need to update it there is not enough free space on the disk for apt to do a normal 'apt upgrade'.

So far, at least hydro-electric power, coal power, wind power, solar power, and wood power are well known.

My movie playing setup involve Kodi, OpenELEC (probably soon to be replaced with LibreELEC) and an Infocus IN76 video projector.

The leaders of the worlds have started to congratulate the re-elected Russian head of state, and this causes some criticism.

So, Cambridge Analytica is getting some well deserved criticism for (mis)using information it got from Facebook about 50 million people, mostly in the USA.

I am working on publishing yet another book related to Creative Commons.

Today I was pleasantly surprised to discover my operating system of choice, Debian, was used in the info screens on the subway stations.

Surprising as it might sound, there are still computers using the traditional Sys V init system, and there probably will be until systemd start working on Hurd and FreeBSD.

A few days ago, a new major version of VLC was announced, and I decided to check out if it now supported streaming over bittorrent and webtorrent.

A new version of the 3D printer slicer software Cura, version 3.1.0, is now available in Debian Testing (aka Buster) and Debian Unstable (aka Sid).

We write 2018, and it is 30 years since Unicode was introduced.

I've continued to track down list of movies that are legal to distribute on the Internet, and identified more than 11,000 title IDs in The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) so far.

After several months of working and waiting, I am happy to report that the nice and user friendly 3D printer slicer software Cura just entered Debian Unstable.

While looking at the scanned copies for the copyright renewal entries for movies published in the USA, an idea occurred to me.

Three years ago, a presumed lost animation film, Empty Socks from 1927, was discovered in the Norwegian National Library.

It would be easier to locate the movie you want to watch in the Internet Archive, if the metadata about each movie was more complete and accurate.

A month ago, I blogged about my work to automatically check the copyright status of IMDB entries, and try to count the number of movies listed in IMDB that is legal to distribute on the Internet.

If you care about how fault tolerant your storage is, you might find these articles and papers interesting.

I was surprised today to learn that a friend in academia did not know there are easily available web services available for writing LaTeX documents as a team.

Recently, I needed to automatically check the copyright status of a set of The Internet Movie database (IMDB) entries, to figure out which one of the movies they refer to can be freely distributed on the Internet.

I find it fascinating how many of the people being locked inside the proposed border wall between USA and Mexico support the idea.

At my nearby maker space, Sonen, I heard the story that it was easier to generate gcode files for theyr 3D printers (Ultimake 2+) on Windows and MacOS X than Linux, because the software involved had to be manually compiled and set up on Linux while premade

Every mobile phone announce its existence over radio to the nearby mobile cell towers.

A little more than a month ago I wrote how to observe the SIM card ID (aka IMSI number) of mobile phones talking to nearby mobile phone base stations using Debian GNU/Linux and a cheap USB software defined radio, and thus being able to pinpoint the locati…

On friday, I came across an interesting article in the Norwegian web based ICT news magazine digi.no on how to collect the IMSI numbers of nearby cell phones using the cheap DVB-T software defined radios.

I finally received a copy of the Norwegian Bokmål edition of "The Debian Administrator's Handbook".

It is pleasing to see that the work we put down in publishing new editions of the classic Free Culture book by the founder of the Creative Commons movement, Lawrence Lessig, is still being appreciated.

I am very happy to report that the Nikita Noark 5 core project tagged its second release today.

This is a copy of an email I posted to the nikita-noark mailing list.

The Nikita Noark 5 core project is implementing the Norwegian standard for keeping an electronic archive of government documents.

Over the years, administrating thousand of NFS mounting linux computers at the time, I often needed a way to detect if the machine was experiencing NFS hang.

So the new president in the United States of America claim to be surprised to discover that he was wiretapped during the election before he was elected president.

For almost a year now, we have been working on making a Norwegian Bokmål edition of The Debian Administrator's Handbook.

A few days ago I ordered a small batch of the ChaosKey, a small USB dongle for generating entropy created by Bdale Garbee and Keith Packard.

I just noticed the new Norwegian proposal for archiving rules in the goverment list ECMA-376 / ISO/IEC 29500 (aka OOXML) as valid formats to put in long term storage.

A few days ago, we received the ruling from my day in court.

On Wednesday, I spent the entire day in court in Follo Tingrett representing the member association NUUG, alongside the member association EFN and the DNS registrar IMC, challenging the seizure of the DNS name popcorn-time.no.

Did you ever wonder where the web trafic really flow to reach the web servers, and who own the network equipment it is flowing through?

Do you have a large iCalendar file with lots of old entries, and would like to archive them to save space and resources?

I received a very nice Christmas present today.

The Isenkram system I wrote two years ago to make it easier in Debian to find and install packages to get your hardware dongles to work, is still going strong.

In my early years, I played the epic game Elite on my PC.