So here are the instructions:

Start by going onto facebook, login as usuall and go to http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php

There you can click on Other Windows/Mac/Linux.

And you will get a popup shoing you the login, and other information you need.

Open up Kopete and Click “Settings” in the top menu and then click “Configure”.

Click on “Accounts”, and then click “Add Account…”

Select “Jaber (XMPP, Jabber, Google talk)” from the list of services. Then click on next.

Use the Jabber ID you got from the chat page, and type it into the Jabber ID field.

Click on Remember Password and type in your normal Facebook password. Then click on next.

Under Connection preferences, leave all three options unchecked.

ANd no clikc on OK and you should be able to connect.

Be warned that you will see all you facebook friends so it might give you a lot of new persons in kopete.

Så vad är nytt med denna. Jo den är FRI och gjord genom doneringar.

Första avsnittet gjordes med en budget på bara 6000 USD och nu jagar man mer pengar för att göra resten av sästong 1.

Och den distribueras fritt genom bittorrent.

Jag har laddat hem första avsnittet och den ser helt ok ut. Verkar kunna bli en bra story och att göra en “fri” tvserie är en härlig variant.

Så gå till PionerOnes hemsida, ladda hem, och ev var med och donera.

Today when checking my email I did have some time to clean-out my spam-box. I do like to see what spam I get sometime, and today was the usual assortments of winnings (oh i wish i could get this 1.5 M USD that I won and the 1 million GBP that I have waiting for me at the UK bank). But I understand scams and I do understand that some people fails for it and that they don’t need tat many people that falls for it to make it worth while. And its sad but that’s humans for you.

But today I got the following mail:

Organization:  	World Vision UK
World Vision House
Opal Drive
Milton Keynes
MK15 0ZR
United Kingdom.

Attn Sir/Ma,

On January 12, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. Join recovery efforts
mobilizing around the world to assist earthquake victims, with World Vision teams
in the midst of a full-scale response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti;
information from the disaster zone develops very quickly.

In light to support Disaster Relief in Haiti World Vision have personally
witnessed the tremendous generosity and goodwill of the American people
and of our friends around the world to help in times of great need, World
Vision is on the ground rushing emergency supplies to survivors of this
catastrophe. The damage to buildings is extensive and the number of injured
or dead is estimated to be in the tens of thousands.

Prior to this present engagements World Vision Team needs payment representative
to work on part-time, we will need you as payment representative to receive
payments in your location where we do not have agent presently from Corporate,
Individual willing to donate to help the relief effort today.

Job Description is as follows (Read Carefully)

1. Payment will be sent to you on our behalf from any of our donor this would
   come in the form of Cashiers Checks, Bank wire transfer
2. All Payments must be Cashed/Deposited or confirm receipt of funds incase of
   wire transfer at your Bank.
3. Deduction of Commission Fee of 10% Payment received as your remuneration for
   working with "World Vision Team" to encourage your participation.
4. Further directives shall be enunciated to you in very general term on how to
   Convey the donated funds to achieve our basic objective of the team.

Note:  There is no application fee for this vacancy to be our representative
       it will all go down to your benevolence to support the circumstance in
       Haiti, but also you have the opportunity to engage in dialogue with our
       staff members and other world vision supporters. 

If you are interested to be an agent; kindly provide your contact details as
specified underneath;

Full Name:
Mailing Address (not P.O BOX):
City:
State:
Country:
Zip Code:
Telephone Number:
Cell Number
Fax Number:
Email Address:
Gender:
Age:
Occupation:

God Bless you as we look forward to establish a cordial relationship with you.

Yours Truly,

For: WORLD VISION ORGANIZATION	

Dr. Neil Ashford

(Human Resources Manager)
Reply to: worldvisionteam@excite.co.uk

Men domarna i Spanien är tydligen lite mer, ska vi säga liberala, och sitter inte lika mycket i knä på copyright lobbyn som i Sverige. DOm har lagt ned rättegången och liknar filesharing med att man lånar böcker av varandra.

Och lite håller jag nog med. Jag tycker inte att man ska dela på copyrightskyddat material, som tex musik och program eller filmer. Men att lägga in skydd så jag inte en kan kopiera den musiken jag köpt till min IPOD är fel. Och jag tycker inte att det är fel att plocka hem TV serier som går på TV för att kunna följa med när man inte är hemma. Men det är min åsikt.

Etherpad is a collaborative editor where a number of people (up to 16) can se and edit the same document. A very cool idea.

I tested a few of the links he had and I also found that the TitanPad.com one seems to be a nice one. The piratepad.net that is run by pirateparty in sweden has some of the features disabled. But i like the idea of a shared editor for meeting notes perhapes. WIll defenetly test this in the future.

Det är lite samma problem som med DVD och regionskodningen. Det brukar inte ta lång tid innan nån ute i världen kommer p hur man bryter sig in eller tar sig förbi skydden. Vore det inte enklare att ta bort detta och se till att folk kan göra som dom vill med sin hordvara/media och lita på att folk kommer att lära sig att sköta detta.

Se bara på spotify och deras hantering av musik. Jag trot att dom flesta är villiga att betala lite för att ha tillgång till musik och 99 kr per månad är inte mycket. Jag tror att folk generellt är ganska ärliga om man ger dom en möjlighet till att skaffa saker till ett rimligt pris.

Jag har varit lite traditionell och tyckt att jag klarar mej bra med mina CD skivor, inscannade till amaroc och nedladdade till min ipod, eller uppspelta på min squeesbox. Men i tisdags så fick jag en invite till spotify av en god vän och tänkte att jag får väl kort kolla också.

Sagt och gort, jag laddade hem freevarianten och startade och prova. Och jag gillar det. Dom har ortoligt mycket musik där.

Bland annat har jag hittat 3 skicor med Norah Jones som jag inte hade, 14 skivor med Gipsie Kings, och 9 nya skivor med Arrogant worms. Så man måste säga att det finns en hel del där att hitta och inte bara nya skivor. Bland annat hittade jag Spike Jones från 1959. Så mycket musik har dom.

Jag har nu även uppgraderat till Premium, så nu har jag några invites att dela med mej om någon vill ha.

I have no problems with typing in my password when I log in to a server, but now it was getting a bit annoying.

ssh-agent

Well one of the solutions is ssh-agent. This little program sits and holds the key and send them on towards a new system. I can also forwards it if you login with ssh to another machine (if you allows it). The best way to run it is as a main program and have all other programs to be a childes to it. Then all the settings and so it inherited. And guess what – ubuntu and kubuntu does that. When you login and startup X it seems that ssh-agent is started by default.

To make it even simpler its a good thing to add you main key to it. You can do that with the command:

ssh-add

and it will ask for the key for the private keys you have in your ssh directory. An even better version is to have ssh-add run as the X system starts up. To do this you need to install the package ssh-askpass. This contains a small X11 program that will grab the keyboard and allow you to enter the key. Install it with:

sudo apt-get install ssh-askpass

Autostart of ssh-add

When we now have that installed we can setup so that we get ssh-add to run when we tart up X.

create a file .kde/Autostart/ssh-add.sh

With this content:

#!/bin/sh
# set SSH_ASKPASS if not set elsewhere
export SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/bin/ssh-askpass
ssh-add </dev/null

This will start ssh-add and popup a windows asking for the password. Set the right permissions on it with:

chmod 755 .kde/Autostart/ssh-add.sh

Ths only thing now it to forward ssh-agent requests if you whant that. I did write about my way of creating small scripts fo conecting to other servers here, and I now added a -A flag to the ssh command line to get that to work.  Then when you log in to a new server you dont have to enter the password and if you run ssh (or svn over ssh) on that machone the password questions gets back to the original ssh-agent.

What was happening (I think) is that audible has timed up with itunes for the ipod delivery and as the system is not seeing my ipod it defaults to remove the ipod from my device list after a while (some years or so). So the drm will not let me play it on my ipod. I was kind of crossed as I just bought 2 new books that was a continuation of a book i already read, and now I could not read (well listen) to them.

One way of perhaps solving this would have been to reformat and connect the ipod to a vmware instance that I have for some windows programs that I do need to run, like the bank and so, but as i have had problems with that (linux sees the ipod first and grabs it) and that I do want amarok to handle my podcast that was not real way for me. And as vmware dont talk to pulseaudio I could not play it in “windows” and capture the audio.

Some days ago I started to play with virtualbox as an other way of doing other systems that I sometimes need to run uner linux. I have some customer sometimes that requires stuff to be done on a windows system with ASP and MsSQL server and so, so I am forced to run it some times. And as  Virtualbox is free I was looking into that.

And I found that the virtualbox works better than vmware does. It handles pulseaudio as it should. So i get the sound working in the windows instance that I run under virtalbox. Well this is interesting.

This guide also requires that you have pulseaudio working on your system but as I have covered that earlier I will not go into that here.

Install virtualbox

Installing virtualbox is fairly easy. You install the virtualbox-ose version (this is the open one thats in the normal repository). Im shure you can download and install the new versions from suns site directly but as this solved my problem i just did that. You also need to install the virtualbox-ose-modules-generic package also to gte the networks and so working.

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-modules-generic

Setup a virtualbox for playing

To set up a virtualbox its a straight forward job. You just click on new in the virtualbox control program, select a name and windows xp as os type. You create a new virtual disk of at least 5 gb (5g is enough for setting up the os and itunes, and some audiobooks).

You then select NAT as a network drive

Then setup the audio as pulseaudio

And after you have installed the OS and the guest additions you can add a shared drive to store the data on

This should give you an OS that should work well and play ipod music.

Then go ahead and install the audible download manager and the itunes program.

Configure pulseaudio

Pulseaudio has many config files and many options. I am sure that someone that is very knowable in configuring a pulseaudio setup can do this better, and if you already are using pulseaudio over the network you might need to work more on this,  but this worked for me.

As pulseaudio has a option of sending audio out over the network, and in creating this you have a sink to use to send the audio from our virtualbox os out on, and record from you can use this separatly from any other sound device so that normal system sounds and so will not disturb the recording.

You go into the “Pulseaudio Preferences”. and go to tab 2.

Click the “Enable Multicast/RTP sender” and then the “Create separate audio device for Multicast/RTP”. This is all that is needed to make it work.

Install pacpl

To convert the file later on we need the pacpl program. This is a perl audio converter and it can convert from mp3 to mp4′s for the ipod. It has quite some prerequisites so the easiest way is to follow the instrucrtions here. I think im using a slightly newer version, 4.0.5 insted of 4.0.4 but the procedure is the same.

In short:

• Install/Setup the mediabuntu repostitory
• Install Ubuntu Restricted Extras and build-essential
• Download and build pacpl package
• Install it and all prerequisites

The we can use the pacpl program later to convert the file.

Install gpac

To get the best files for the ipod we need to install gpac packages also. This will give us the MP4Box program that we can use later to fix the files for the ipod.

sudo apt-get install gpac

will install this.

Install lame

To convert the file to mp3 files we also need the lame encoder. Install this with:

sudo apt-get install lame

Running the audio capture

So now its time to run the audio capture. And yes – it will require you to play the audible file in your virtalbox windows, but as this is just running I don’t see the problem with that. It just take time. So startup itunes in there, and select the file you whant to play. But don’t start playing it yet. I have created one small playlist called ToConvert that I use and add one file to that the time. This is often the case because I like the unabridged versions of the books.

Then we need to move the audio output of the virtualbox to the rtp.multicast.sink. You do this by opening up the Pulseaudio Volum Control program, rightclick on the VBOX (with the right name if you are running multiple virtual boxes), select Move stream, and move it to the rtp.multicast.sink.

Then open up a terminal windows to start the recorder. The command to capture is (type in the command but don’t press enter yet):

parec --format=s16le --device="rtp.monitor" | lame -r -x --bitwidth 16 -m s -a - > /tmp/js.mp3

We use the parec to capture from the rpt.monitor and send ot out as 16 bits little endian raw pcm file.

Then we use lame to encode it to mp3. The flags for lame is -r for raw pcm file, -x for little endian, –bitwith 16 for 16 bits file, -m s for stereo and -a for downsample to mono.

When you are ready, have the virtual box ready and the parec ready, press enter on the command line to start the recorder and then click on play in itunes to start recordning.

This will give you the file /tmp/js.mp3 with the audio you have played in itunes. You have to have the windows open and press <CTRL> + C when the playing is done. If you miss and record silence in the end, you can use audacity to trim down the file.

So now we have the mp3 file and you can play that in your ipod. But there is some problems.

1. The file will not come in right without the ID3 tag
2. If you just copy over a mp3 you can play it, but if you navigate away from the playing and play something else you will loose where you where.
3. And the file will not be under Audiobooks.

Number 1 is sorted out by using a good ID3 tag editor – i prefer the EasyTAG one.

Number 2 and 3 is handled by converting it to a m4b file. The m4b file is just an mp4 file (m4a), but renamed to m4b.

Convert to m4a

To convert the file to mp4 we will use the pacpl program. The commadn line to do the conversion is:

pacpl --defopts 0 -v -to m4a --aacqual 50 --eopts="-b 32" /tmp/js.mp3

This will set no default options (–defoptions 0), be verbose (-v), convert to m4a (-to m4a), set the m4a quality to 50 (–aacqual 50) and set the encoding options to use 32 bits bitrate (–eopts=”-b 32). This will produce a m4a files that is just lightly bigger than the audible file we started with.

Setting ID3 tags

Before one renames the m4a files to m4b i run the easyTag to set the ID3 tags. Remember to add Part1.. and to to the title if you are spliting the file in multiple parts to keep the size down (i have found that files under 100mb works best). I usually sets the tags for both the mp3 file and the m4a file.

Fixing file for ipod

There is a problem with just converting the mp3 to m4a. Some times when you start up your ipod it will fail to read in the file in memory, or miss to skip to the right place, and then it will jump to next file. Enoying. But you can make it less frequent by just waiting for 5 seconds before pressing to play. But it seems that this last step will fix this to. Apparently the itunes creates an interleaved version of the file, and MP4Box program can do this to. So run the following command on the file:

MP4Box -ipod /tmp/js.m4a

And now you are ready to rename the file:

mv /tmp/js.m4a /tmp/js.m4b

And you can now tranfer the file to your ipod with amarol, and listen to it.

Hope you enjoy this as much as i do.

The old one we had at the summerhouse blow up last year – last weeks of the authum we where there and I did not have time then to fix it so I just took it home. After checking it now I did found out that the motherboard is probably fried and not the harddrive as I suspected, but I will have to do more investigation into this. I had more small boxes that can be used for this (the one we had in the house in uppsala could be reused) so i installed a new version of smoothwall on it. The old one was a Smoothwall Express 2 and there is a new version 3 out that I wanted to test.

So I installed the new version on the box and as I whanted to test it as much as I could I plugged the red network into my home network and that was good and well and it got a network adress over DHCP just as it would down at the summerhouse when I plug it into the telia ADSL connection.

Except for the fact that after the initial config you are suposed to login to the webinterface from the INSIDE (or the green network) to finnish the config. And my machines are ofcuase on my green home network, and that is now the red on the new smoothwall. So what to do. Well im shure there is a way of changing the config manually so I started too look around and checked if I could change it from the command line.

And there is a way but I could not find any one mention this so thats why I write this down. Hopefully someone else can use this aswell.

So you go into the machine (on the console) and login with root and the password you set.

At the prompt you do:

vi /var/smoothwall/xtaccess/config

And then add the line:

tcp,0.0.0.0/0,441,on

Save the file, back to the command line and reboot the system (reboot command).

This will open up the access to the 441 port and the web interface from the red network and after this you can login on the red network to the webinterface also and continue the config process.

Dessutom så har vi nu startat jobbet med att byta stadgarna. Det fanns ju en hel del editoriella ändringa (Ombud till registrars och NIC.SE till IIS osv) och detta är nu gjort – i all fall första delen. Dessa måste ju tas beslut på vid 2 årsmöten så första steget är klart nu och vi får göra sista beslutet på nästa årsmöte.

Efter det var det presentation av dom komerciella epp klienter som fanns för .se. Jag och björn var där från oss (min hals är ju nästan helt slut och jag kunde inte presentera själv) så björn fick göra presentationen.

Det var interesant och se dom andra och en sak som slog mej var att vi var dom enda som körde live – dom andra visade powerpoint presentationerna och inget live. Lite fegt men så var det.

Nu ska jag ta det lugnt och vila min röst. Även om den blivit bättre så känns det att man pratat en hel del idag trots att jag borde hållit tyst.

Internet trafik halverad

Som raporterats i flera tidiningar (idg, aftonbladet) så har internet trafiken gått ned. Med anska mycket. I onsdags så raporterade man 30 % nedgång men om man tittar på statistiken från knutpunkterna i sverige så har det gått ned hela veckan sen i onsdags och nu är man på 90gb/s och man var nästan uppe i 200 gb/s i tisdags så jag skulle säga att detta är nästan 50%. Och an kan ju undra vad detta beror på. Fildelning – Ja säkert till en del. Men endast det?

Ej retroaktivt

När man gjrde IPRED lagen så är jag ganska säler på att jag kommer ihåg att en av sakerna var att det inte skulle vara retroaktift, dvs man skule inte kunna gå tillbaka och leta titta på gamma data. Men nu har 3 eller var det 5 fildelare redan skickats till domsolev av bokförlagen. Djäklar vad snabba dom har varit och letat information och så – på bara 3 dagar?

Försäljningsstatistik

Det enda som är kvar nu är att vänta på försäljningsstatistiken från Skivbolagen och film industrin. Om nu nedladdningen stog för 50% av internet så borde ju försäljningen av musik och filmer g upp ganska markant. Tror vi på detta? Och kommer skivbolagen etc att publicera statistik nu?

Ska jag vara ärlig så tror jag att förändringen blir omvänd. Jag har tankat hem en del, men mestadels är det serier som jag vill titta på och att få hem dom tidigare än när dom kommer ut i sverige är interesant. DOck så gillar jag också riktig hög kvalitet så nör det kommer på DVD så brukar jag oftast köpa dom riktiga också. Men kommer jag att fortsätta med det. Ja till en viss del men jag kommer ju inte att se så månag nya serier så möjligen kommer jag inte att hitta dom jag vill köpa.

Vad tror ni andra – kommer IPRED att påverka era inköp?

Men jag tycker att rättegången är helt fel från grunden.

Låt oss ta in alla biltillverkare och stäm dom för massmord. Dom tillverkar ju bilar som folk kör ihjäl andra med dagligen – och vi har ju över 400 döda i trafiken varje år så det måste väl klassas som medhjälp till massmord. Minst.

Och sen har vi ju telia. Dom hjälper ju till att möjliggöra hot, hets mot folkgrupp och antagligen förberedelse till en massa olika brott som stöld, hot och utpressning. Så dom måste vi ta inför rätta också. Eller….

Jag tycker att man har blandat ihop sakerna här. Fildelning och kopiering av copyrighted material är en sak. Det är i stor del förbjudet och det är en debatt som vi kan ha. Men att försöka döma en teknik som kan användas för olagligheter är väldigt konstigt.

Så lägg ned denna rättegång och om skivbolagen och andra vill stoppa fildelningen, ge er på fildelarna och inte tekniken. Eller så ta vi alla saker inför rätta som kan vara till hjälp vid brott. Biltillverkare, telefonbolag, vapentillverkare med mera.

Vi glada 08′or som bor mitt i stan drabbas nog inte men ute på landet kan det bli problem. Tack och lov så har PTS stoppat detta just nu i alla fall.

Vad tycker ni. Ska marknadskrafterna få gälla över allt?

Jag tycker faktiskt att vissa saker ska man kräva att samhället står för och med mer och mer av våra liv och affärer som sker via Internet så är detta och telefonen väl en sak som vi borde ha som en grundläggande rättighet.