name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast

Here you can change the order the different network protocols that should be resolved. What pointed me in the right direction was the command simple but very useful Linux command “dig” which stands for “domain information groper”. By simply typing:

dig

Which is very useful for troubleshooting network problems in general. Test it yourself by typing e.g.:

dig wikipedia.com

and you will get a very nice output on how the domain name is resolved. The part that helped me a was the third next line in the output:

; <<>> DiG 9.7.0-P1 <<>> wikipedia.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 11524
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;wikipedia.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
wikipedia.com. 1305 IN A 208.80.152.201

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
wikipedia.com. 82430 IN NS ns2.wikimedia.org.
wikipedia.com. 82430 IN NS ns0.wikimedia.org.
wikipedia.com. 82430 IN NS ns1.wikimedia.org.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns0.wikimedia.org. 1420 IN A 208.80.152.130
ns1.wikimedia.org. 1420 IN A 208.80.152.142
ns2.wikimedia.org. 1420 IN A 91.198.174.4

;; Query time: 11 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.10.1#53(192.168.10.1)
;; WHEN: Sat Feb 18 16:09:39 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 162

On my laptop, the one that could resolve hostname the output was:

;; SERVER: 208.122.23.22#53(208.122.23.22)

This DNS server belongs to UnblockUS which is a service to unblock services that is for USA only. I used it to watch netflix.com in Norway. On the other computers the command printed out my ISP ‘s DNS primary server and there is no way a local hostname can be resolved by using a DNS server that is not connected to your local network (LAN). The reason that it worked  on my laptop I believe is that my UnblockUS subscription had expired and then my laptop used my router as a DNS server instead.

So finally, here is the Solution:

I checked my /etc/resolv.conf file and found that Ubuntu automatically fetched my ISP’s DNS server IPs and saved it here every time the network was getting the IP address from the DHCP server on the router. There is useless just to change the /etc/resolv.conf file because then it is overwritten every time the network daemon  starts. If you are using Gnome interface, right click on network icon > Edit Connections > IPv4 (tab) > Automatic (DHCP) addresses only (from the dropdown menu) and enter the IP address to your router in the DNS servers: field. The location may vary depending on which Ubuntu version you have and if you have wireless or wired connection, but you will find it if you look around the dialogue boxes.

On my headless server I used static DHCP on my router. I changed this to be a static IP on my server instead by editing /etc/network/interfaces using nano:

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

Before:

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

After:

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.10.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.10.1

Change your /etc/network/interfaces according to your network configuration. Edit your /etc/resolv.conf  and add your router as nameserver:

nameserver 192.168.10.1

Feel free to comment if you find errors or have any questions.

Norsk er under hardt angrep fra engelsk og vi står sterkere sammen hvis vi skal beholde gode norske ord og uttrykk. Hva som er gode norske ord og uttrykk kan selvsagt diskuteres ihjel, men det er lite fruktbart. Det er alltid litt trist å høre folk bruke engelske ord eller fraser i stedet for det jeg vil kvalifisere som gode norske ord og uttrykk.

Det er på mange måter resurskrevende å ha to skriftspråk. Det koster penger, selv om dette er det dårligste argumentet så gjør det nå en gang det. Den resursbruken som bekymrer meg mest er norskundervisningen hvor norsk ungdom stiller med et handikap når de må lære to variasjoner av morsmålet sitt. Det blir mindre tid til lek og øvelse på rettskrivning av den enkle grunn at det er krevende for ungdom å lære to skriftspråk. Det jeg ønsker meg er en større toleranse for dialekter og ett skriftspråk. Mange vil nok argumentere for at det er lett for meg å si som kommer fra en del av landet hvor dialekten er veldig lik bokmål, og det er selvsagt et poeng, men ikke et godt argument i debatten om to skriftspråk av den enkle grunn at det er bokmål som er det skriftspråket 85–90% velger å bruke. Vi er rett og slett et for lite land til å skulle holde liv i to skriftspråk.

Det er på tide å komme over dansketiden, den er en del av historien vår enten vi liker det eller ikke. Wergeland var en klok mann, og han kommer til å få viljen sin i denne saken også. Det er bare et tidsspørsmål, i mellomtiden er norsk skoleungdom taperne for nynorskens kunstige åndedrett.

I am a student at University of Oslo and a happy and proud user of a Livescribe pen. At the university we are trained to use Linux. Which distro we choose does not matter, so we are free to use Ubuntu which provide us a great community where Ubuntu users can get fantastic support and much more. Ubuntu also comes with a good software package handlers called “Software Center” or “Synaptic”. I have Windows installed side by side with Ubuntu on my computers, but the only reason for booting into Windows for me now is to synchronize my livescribe pen or watch and hear recorded lectures. The fact that there is no Linux version of LD is starting to get more and more time consuming, because I always do my exercises in Ubuntu. I will urge you to make a port for Linux, and if you do, Debian/Ubuntu would be a good place to start. Because Linux is very common on universities around the world I think this extra expenses porting LD to linux will pay off because Livescribe will (I believe) reach a much broader range of your target group. I hope you will take this into consideration and create a Linux version of LD. I do not have the programming skills to make a port myself, but if I could I would have done it for free. So my solicitation to Livescribe is to contact the community at e.g. Ubuntu (www.ubuntuforums.com) and ask if anybody is interested in cooperate with Livescribe to create a Linux port.

I will post this message on different forums to see if I can get some response from the community, and if I do I will let you know. In the mean time I would love to hear Livescribes plans on this subject.

Thank you!

Thomas Gabrielsen

You need Firefox experimental nightly build:
http://people.mozilla.org/~roc/stream-demos/

You should try them, it is worth spending some time playing around with these demos. Start at the top of the list, and work yourself down, one at the time.

1. Go to http://support.google.com/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151674 and follow the instructions on how set up your (i)phone’s CalDAV synch.
2. Open up https://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/ditt_domene/iphoneselec and select the calendars you want to synch
3. Go to your phone’s calendar settings and select the calendars you want to view. On an iPhone: Open up your calendar, click on the “Calendars”  button in the upper left corner, select the calendars you want to view.

That’s it!

Jeg tviler ikke et sekund …

The first thing you as a customer have to do is to choose your distribution partner from a drop  down list which currently holds 35 distribution partners:

Service provider drop down list

• Altiboxleverandør: Altibox service providers
• Kundenumer = customer number
• Husk meg = Remember me

Next you have to type in your customer number. This is a eight (8) digit long number which is not used anywhere else, and if the customer has forgotten it, it is very hard to find. They have even removed it from the profile page. And to make things even more difficult, they have disabled autocomplete!

Disabled autocomplete

It is written in Norwegian, but Chrome users will recognize the label. It says: “This website has deactivated autocomplete for this form”.

Finally you have to add a pin code, which is different from the password used to log in to the customer page.  It feels like they do not want the customers to use this service, but this is of course not true. My suspicion is that this is just laziness and ignorance of usability in general and a very important design principle: consistency, and  a total misunderstanding of  the design principle constraints.

Come on guys, you can do better than this!

Facebook må snu etter norsk klage – Aftenposten.

Foreningens mål er at de prinsipielle spørsmålene som implementeringen av datalagringsdirektivet reiser i en demokratisk rettsstat, får en ordentlig og uavhengig behandling i uavhengige domstoler. Om nødvendig, med Den Europeiske Menneskerettsdomstolen (EMK) som siste instans.

Dette vil de gjøre ved å saksøke staten, og om så prøve saken for Den Europeiske Menneskerettsdomstolen. De regner med å trenge minst to millioner for å gjennomføre dette, og har startet en kronerulling hvor alle kan bidra med små eller store beløp. Georg Apenes sier i et intervju med digi.no at til tross for “høflige anmodninger til ressurssterke organisasjoner og individer” har responsen vært lunken og har fått avslag fra omtrent halvparten av de politiske partiene han har kontaktet. Det virker som noen har tatt av håndjerna på  Georg Apenes, for det virker som han har mer politisk slagkraft nå enn da han var direktør for Datatilsynet. Bare sjekk hvem han har med seg på laget: http://www.digitaltpersonvern.no/kontakt/

Til tross for at pengene trillet inn i  starten, har det nå begynt å stoppe opp, men de vil få en julepresang fra meg!

En av plakatene fra Digital Personverns kampanje

Quote:

… [Google] Wave service will be turned off on April 30, 2012.

Now I just found this page about Google Bookmarks: Goodbye, Lists: FAQ – Bookmarks Help.

Quote:

Lists is being discontinued on December 19th, 2011.

Well, it makes sense that they shut down services that is barely used. I hope that Google now keeps up the good work and is putting all their resources making Google’s core services even better. And I hope Google+ is one of those services!