Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries tagged english

Inspired by the recent news of AV1 hardware encoding support from Intel, I decided to look into the state of AV1 on Linux today.

Recently I had a look at a Hargassner wood chip boiler, and what kind of free software can be used to monitor and control it.

After many months of hard work by the good people involved in LinuxCNC, the system was accepted Sunday into Debian.

I am very happy to report that a new version of the VLC bittorrent plugin was just uploaded into debian.

A few days ago, a productive translator started working on a new translation of the Made with Creative Commons book for Brazilian Portuguese.

The Debian Lego team saw a lot of activity the last few weeks.

Almost thirty years ago, some forward looking teachers at Samisk videregående skole og reindriftsskole teaching metal work and Northern Sámi, decided to create a list of words used in Northern Sámi metal work.

I am happy observe that the The Debian Administrator's Handbook is available in six languages now.

I am very pleased to be able to share with you the announcement of a new version of the archiving system Nikita published by its lead developer Thomas Sødring: It is with great pleasure that we can announce a new release of nikita.

Yesterday morning I got a warning call from the Debian quality control system that the VLC bittorrent plugin was due to be removed because of a release critical bug in one of its dependencies.

I have neglected the Valutakrambod library for a while, but decided this weekend to give it a face lift.

After a lot of hard work by its maintainer Alexandre Viau and others, the decentralized communication platform Jami (earlier known as Ring), managed to get its latest version into Debian Testing.

I am happy to report that we finally made it!

Thanks to the good work of several volunteers, the updated edition of the Norwegian translation for "The Debian Administrator's Handbook" is now almost completed.

Three years ago, the first Norwegian Bokmål edition of "The Debian Administrator's Handbook" was published.

As a member of the Norwegian Unix User Group, I have the pleasure of receiving the USENIX magazine ;login: several times a year.

I am very happy to report that a more reliable VLC bittorrent plugin was just uploaded into debian.

It has been way too long since my last interview, but as the Debian Edu / Skolelinux community is still active, and new people keep showing up on the IRC channel #debian-edu and the debian-edu mailing list, I decided to give it another go.

Half a year ago, I wrote about the Jami communication client, capable of peer-to-peer encrypted communication.

The curiosity got the better of me when Slashdot reported that New Jersey was desperately looking for COBOL programmers, and a few days later it was reported that IBM tried to locate COBOL programmers.

Today, after many months of development, a new release of Nikita Noark 5 core project was finally announced on the project mailing list.

On Tuesday, two scietific articles we have been working on for a while, was finally accepted for publication into Records Management Journal.

When asked to accept terms of use and privacy policies that state it will to remove rights I otherwise had or accept unreasonable terms undermining my privacy, I choose away the service.

Four years ago, I did a back of the envelope calculation on how much it would cost to store audio recordings of all the phone calls in Norway, and came up with NOK 2.1 million / EUR 250 000 for the year 2013.

While working on identifying and counting movies that can be legally shared on the Internet, I also looked at the Norwegian movies listed in IMDb.

The recent announcement of from the New York Public Library on its results in identifying books published in the USA that are now in the public domain, inspired me to update the scripts I use to track down movies that are in the public domain.

Childs need to learn how to guard their privacy too.

Some years ago, in 2016, I wrote for the first time about the Ring peer to peer messaging system.

The first book I published, Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig, is still selling a few copies.

Just 15 days ago, I mentioned my submission to IANA to register an official MIME type for the SOSI vector map format.

A while back a college and friend from Debian and the Skolelinux / Debian Edu project approached me, asking if I knew someone that might be interested in helping out with a technology project he was running as a teacher at L'école franco-danoise - the Dan…

This morning, a new release of Nikita Noark 5 core project was announced on the project mailing list.

As part of my involvement in the work to standardise a REST based API for Noark 5, the Norwegian archiving standard, I spent some time the last few months to try to register a MIME type and PRONOM code for the SOSI file format.

As part of my involvement with the Nikita Noark 5 core project, I have been proposing improvements to the API specification created by The National Archives of Norway and helped migrating the text from a version control system unfriendly binary format (do…

Yesterday, a new release of Nikita Noark 5 core project was announced on the project mailing list.

Yesterday, the Kraken virtual currency exchange announced their Websocket service, providing a stream of exchange updates to its clients.

I am amazed and very pleased to discover that since a few days ago, everything you need to program the BBC micro:bit is available from the Debian archive.

The layered video playout server created by Sveriges Television, CasparCG Server, entered Debian today.

A fun way to learn how to program Python is to follow the instructions in the book "Learn to program with Minecraft", which introduces programming in Python to people who like to play with Minecraft.

A few hours ago, a new and improved version (2.4) of the VLC bittorrent plugin was uploaded to Debian.

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of watching on Frikanalen the OWASP talk by Scott Helme titled "What We’ve Learned From Billions of Security Reports".

If you read my blog regularly, you probably know I am involved in running and developing the Norwegian TV channel Frikanalen.

As part of my involvement in the Nikita archive API project, I've been importing a fairly large lump of emails into a test instance of the archive to see how well this would go.

My current home stereo is a patchwork of various pieces I got on flee markeds over the years.

Bittorrent is as far as I know, currently the most efficient way to distribute content on the Internet.

This morning, the new release of the Nikita Noark 5 core project was announced on the project mailing list.

I have earlier covered the basics of trusted timestamping using the 'openssl ts' client.

A few days, I rescued a Windows victim over to Debian.

It would come as no surprise to anyone that I am interested in bitcoins and virtual currencies.

Back in February, I got curious to see if VLC now supported Bittorrent streaming.