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A Corrupt Jens Stoltenberg , FAST Search Transfer , Microsoft

You'd think the prime minister would keep his distance from a company that could well be guilty of corporate crime.
Fast Search & Transfer hasn't actually been declared innocent yet.

Kredittilsynet (The Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway) reported FAST, on the 24th April, to Økokrim (The Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic Crime). Despite noting that the case was incredibly serious and in principle very important, Økokrim dropped the case because they didn't have the resources.

Exactly who does have the resources to investigate Microsoft today?
EU Commission is pretty much alone on that one.

Sure, we're innocent until provide guilty, but Økokrim's message here is that there's definitely enough reason to suspect that FAST is corrupt.

So then Kredittilsynet reported FAST to the police. The first time ever a listed company has been formally reported by Kredittilsynet to the police.

So what the hell is Jens Stoltenberg doing getting involved?

Hey Steve Balmer, come to norway, hire a few hundred people, and we'll make sure we don't investigate you!

UPDATE 16th October: Økokrim raided FAST, without warning, seizing all accounts.

Console keymap all screwed up

The few months my console keymap was messed leaving me with an unusable console. It got worse when i something like http://bugs.gentoo.org/114893 and had no X working.

It appears the gentoo's kbd package comes with too no.map.gz files: /usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak/no.map.gz /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/no.map.gz

So only having KEYMAP="no" in /etc/conf.d/keymaps wasn't enough to separate these too and my keyboard thought it was dvorak.

As the bug report mentions you can specify an absolute path to the keymap file.

So KEYMAP="/usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/no.map.gz" fixed the problem :-)

wpa_supplicant breaks iwl4965

On my Fujitsu Siemens E8410 lifebook. This is a 2xCPU x86_64 laptop running Gentoo 2.6.26

Everytime i emerge nm-applet it also installs wpa_supplicant and all subsequent attempts to start the wireless interface fails:

Unmerging both nm-applet and wpa_supplicant fixes it nice and simple.

Safety procedures in disarray at Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear construction site

BREAKING NEWS: Safety procedures in disarray at Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear construction site

Documents seen by Greenpeace show that French company Areva is failing to implement vital safety procedures in the troubled construction of its prototype European Pressurized Water Reactor (EPR) in Olkiluoto, Finland. As well as being 2-3 years behind schedule, 70 per cent over budget, and experiencing 1,500 construction defects along with a damaging fire, the reactor's safety cannot be guaranteed.

The full story: http://weblog.greenpeace.org/nuclear-reaction/2008/08/breaking_news_safety_procedure.html

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While there continues to be no known way to deal with nuclear waste, effectively in one go, using nuclear energy is taking the time and effort required to reprocess such waste from future generations, it is stealing our children.

num num!

a place to call home

Heggedalsveien 106, 1385 Asker. Thank you Fredrik (idrik) for helping us out.

Our new Toyota Prius

Yesterday we picked up our new car, a two year old Toyota Prius.

No ooxml

half-baked standards shouldn't be fast tracked through ISO's standardisation process with kickbacks and undemocratic influences.
http://flickr.com/photos/andyarmstrong/2400864458/in/pool-750232@N22
Forfatter Frid Ingulstad tar det meste på kornet i et debattinnlegg i Aftenposten:

...jeg produserer dokumenter i et ganske stort omfang. Disse dokumentene er mitt levebrød. Og jeg ønsker dem på et filformat jeg føler meg trygg på, i dag og i fremtiden.

Filformater angår i dag folk flest. De burde også oppta våre folkevalgte. /../ Kan det være så vanskelig å enes om et åpent format for alle dokumenter? Ingen kan i dag si meg hva som er fordelen ved OOXML. Jeg ser ingen annen vinner i dette spillet enn dette ene store amerikanske datafirmaet. Jeg har brukt utelukkende fri programvare i mange år. Alle mine manus blir til i programpakken OpenOffice, som er fritt tilgjengelig for alle å bruke. PC-ene mine kjører alle Linux, som også er fri programvare. Og jeg lagrer helst manusene mine i formatet ODF.

Hva er så viktig med denne saken? Den er etter mitt skjønn viktig både av rettslige og økonomiske grunner. Den har med vår felles fremtid å gjøre. Den har med fattige og rike land å gjøre. Filformater er bærere av all informasjon i vår moderne verden. At disse skal dikteres av en verdensomspennende "avgift" til ett enkelt selskap, må da være innlysende galt i alle frittenkende menneskers øyne - uavhengig av nasjonalitet og politisk oppfatning?

Rudd vows to end secret donations

today is good.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23272995-1702,00.html

Må møte behovet for å laste ned

Dear FBI, after watching your segment this evening on downloading illegal music i was disappointed at how it failed to represent a growing minority.

FBI did balance the program by the emphasis how users valued the usability of downloading music whether illegal or not.

But FBI failed to balance between what is legal and what is ethical. There is a growing movement amongst people, especially young, that believe that there is no such thing as illegal downloading, that it is infact only sharing. This has been re-enforced by politicians (eg in both sweden and france) now, there's even a political party in sweden fighting for the rights of users to share.

This movement comes with a lot of common sense. For example:

• looking at the history of copyright we see that it was intended to protect authorship, not to diminish ownership,
• we are brought up by parents, kindergarten, and schools instilling in us that sharing what we own is a positive attribute,
• for thousands of years, music has been freely shared and performed and this exists in every culture,
• we know that artists always make most of their money through the sale of the 'experience' and not of the medium. Artists make most of their money from concerts and performances. An artist (with less than 5 records) makes between 5 and 25 few cents per record sale.
• copyright as we know it today has been grossly exaggerated by the film and music industry to maintain their income selling an outdated medium,
• recent surveys have shown that active 'pirates' are the people that buy more CDs, in essence they are the people who most actively listen and experiment with new types of music.

So as a user that regularly downloads illegal content, and genuinely believes that it is not unethical, i know that by donating $10 a year to my favourite artists, which i do, i'm giving those artists the money they would have received from between 40 to 200 CD sales! Furthermore i'm refusing to fund a technically redundant establishment that is suing society's children for doing what they were taught to do: share.

Think about when you were children and used to record your favourite songs from the radio onto cassette tapes and make composition tapes. This was illegal copying even back then but could you ever imagine being sued for it? It was believed in society that it was not really illegal until you turned such practise commercial, ie you started selling your composition tapes. What has happened in the last 30 years? An establishment is threaten and is trying to stop the advancement of technology for the general public. The whole story is as ridiculous as if photo-express shops started suing people for printing out at home their own photos.

i hope you can appreciate the growing population of users that believe their exists no such thing as piracy.

sincerely, michael semb wever.

Christmas party
food at 9am, and everyone's pretty busy w/ cleaning and preparing… but only one couple, rob+di white, show up! all the other guests have made a decision not to come because of the lice situation, understandably.
we have a lovely bbq, and spend all day in the beautiful scenery of the church. the kids are loving opa's swing and we don't really have a problem w/ the lice anymore except for after guests have gone i put on a dress that was on the floor and i discover after a short while that i'm actually covered in these things again and i break down! just want to leave leave leave.... not handling the queensland bugs very well at all. Poor little city girl.

we put kids to bed around 7 after a super fun bath w/ opa, auntie darrel, and Grandma Madonna all taking turns making them laugh and giggle! the children don't settle down til 10pm! think its the heat....

we have a slow morning, most of us hung over, a long swim in the pool, another fantastic meal prepared by Ado, and we make out way back to Boonah.
Armada's arm is GROSS! she's got a big oozing hole where the vaccination was from in july. WE ARE SOOO WORRIED, and make our way to medical centre, this is closed, so is the pharmacy! we eventually find a open pharmacy not far from boonah and get some medical advice. we've also made an appointment w/ doctor in highlands this week.
we arrive back, and harry has removed all the cobwebs in ceiling, and discovered where all the lice came from! It has been an absolute nightmare, and these small lice are everywhere, except on MICK! he must have something far worse living in his dreads!!
darrel makes lovely fritatta, we deal w/ screaming kids, and we all have a lazy early night. madonna is babysitting baby Lucas!

Us girls, Darrel, Madonna and Tanja have a few hours shopping in brisbane before meeting up w the boys and kids in south bank for a fish n chips lunch!
harry, madonna and darrel goes to andy warhole exhibition while mick me and the kids drive up to Gimpy to visit our good friends Nick and Ado.
What a beautiful place!! huge lot w/ a big vegetable garden, dog, trampoline, pool, chicks, kids just love it! but nirvana becomes really scared of the young excited dog Haka!
Jackson and Madison are just LOVELY, and have all the toys in the world!
the kids play around and check out the place and fall asleep peacefully while us ado and nick and nick's brother Marty make the most beautiful dinner! i crash at 11.30 while the others stay up drinking til 3.30.
Fantastic to hang out again! some quality time while kids sleep is a new thing for us!

Giraween national park
the kids love the awesome nature, the rocks and the kangaroos. we have cheese and crackers in the park. we later have lunch in Stanthorpe! making it back in time for kids bedtime. I make bread and soup. Mick, darrel and i play chase the bitch.

we hang out here w kids, have a lovely pub lunch, and have a look around the shops in boonah, visiting the pharmacy AGAIN! armada is vomiting and not eating, and spiking fevers again! not been well since early november!!! worried parents

we drive up to Boonah.
what an absolutely AMAZING beautiful and peaceful and magical home!
every part of this place is stunning. Tanja is ready to take over this place NOW!
madonna makes an amazing lunch and fresh juice.
we have a lovely roast dinner, and ,after kids have gone to sleep, harry while sweeping the veranda, discovers a 2 meter long diamond python on the broom stick curled up right above his hand grip!! tanja freaks out! from here on tanja is freaked out over all the bugs and crawling things around here. Don't sleep much at night at all.

we get a ride into bowral and have a lovely organic lunch before catching the train to sydney airport! the plane is cancelled and we spend 5-6 hours at airport trying to keep kids in control.
a short trip up to gold coast where Opa, Grandma Madonna, and Julian picks us up at the airport! the girls both gets lovely present bags w/ crocs, clothes and swimmers.
we spend the evening and night at Uncle Chris and Libby's, what a mansion, and what a fantastic dinner! we have a great sleep, and the kids sleep through the night for the first time since arriving in Oz!

dominique, mick, nirvana, and tanja go to mass! silly mick tells wife to sit down when we're up to get communion (instead of explaining to get a blessing)!!
tanja gets an extra little blessing after mass when husband remorses ha ha ha.
we arrange armada's baptism for 2 weeks later with Father Jarek (Jarezhwa).

big christmas firebrigade party!!!

very similar day to the day before. plus preparing for big christmas party next day

chillin out at the farm in the kiddie pool, walkin in the bush, collecting eggs from the chicks, checking out the horses, and just playing around!

!! nirvanas birthday !!

we all have a big sleep-in, completely exhausted from out long trip from norway consisting of early mornings and no sleep on planes for us grown-ups at all! darrel and dominique make the most beautiful cake: a butterfly birthday cake for our 3year old! darrel picks up gran and john from town, and we celebrate with lots and lots of presents, and amazing food from the gumnut patisserie!

arrive in sydney

nirvana running out w/ her cute suitcase to meet grandma, but gramdma was in the loo. We sit down for a coffee and auntie darrel shows up too!

we drive up to the highlands in two cars and make it to the pharmacy before visiting gran and john before finally arriving at the farm, so spectacular!!! just absolutely amazing- they've done a lot of work on the gardens, new driveway, new swingset & sandpit, and new fence! the kids have a ball with the new swings and the kid bikes up and down the veranda!the kids run from room to room happy happy happy.

a lovely day in brunei

had a coffee w/ fellow travllers from the plane (& bus to hotel). they suggested a boat trip for us into the jungle to see monkeys, what a great idea, heaps of fun! after that we walked and walked and walked getting lost looking for a playground for the kids that were recommended in a magazine!
we eventually found it at 6pm! but it was well worth it! the kids went bananas at the Jungle Gym, and we relaxed in aircon w french fries and coffee…

left Brunei at 23.30 that evening. nirvana and armada pretty much slept all night, though a short plane trip 6.5 hours to sydney! mum and dad watched a movie -stardust- even!!

arrive at a hotel brunei with a room that was full of mold. i could hardly breath in there, so worried about sick armada, so requested a new room. The new room was a fraction better, we were happy.
had a quick look around the neighbourhood -the middle of city- just 2 blocks from golden mosque. The women all wear head scarfs, and the men colorful shirts and pants w silk skirts! we discovered the water village, and went to an indian restaurant. indian without beer: mmmmmmm. the kids behaved terribly, poor little gromits too exhausted to know better. tanja went shopping for dress and bag before we headed back to sleep! armada screamed way into the night. nirvana and pappa slept :-$

early 6am start to heathrow, and goodbye 2 turid and nils- an absolutely lovely and relaxed and fun time for big and small semb wevers! Super hectic at the airport, repacking bags and suitcases while dealing w grumpy 4 semb wevers, nappies, bottles, dropping shoes and toys, and trying to carry all our stuff and trying to look like we've got it all together mentally. ha!
but we did make it onto the plane without too much dramas. Nirvana's first comment on plane was "oh, it's going to be difficult to sleep here". Nirvana was occupied w/ lots of stickers, crayons, books, etc, especially a very popular Thomas the train activity book from turid :-) and armada was mostly sick sick sick, fever, coughing and snotty! she needed attention the whole way, and slept only minutes at a time, crying lots. There were no other kids to play w/ on the plane as we had hoped. Fuel stop at Dubai, the kids ran around letting out some steam. On the next leg to Brunei Nirvana slept fine, but armada upset all the way :-(

looooovely day w turid and nils. turid, nirvana and i went to the playground while mick and armada slept and nils went to job interview. Lovely home lunch before we headed out to feed the birds! and then we went into oxford to the market where we got cought in the rain!the boys and the two smallest girls went back home while the two bigger girls went shopping for identical dresses ;) another amazing dinner Nil's favourite: beetroot rosotto topped with cod (not from the north sea ofcourse!

The journey down under started with a crazy 4.45am start! Our pre-booked taxi to get us to asker station turned up 30 minutes early and promptly started the meter. Despite the time and the rain we handled everything well feeding the kids their breakfast on the flytoget.
At the airport we checked in and tanja shopped while armada slept, nirvana slept, and pappa drunk espresso. Tanja shopped until the last "boarding call" was announced and we had to run like crazy to get the plane. Nothing had been bought and we were the last onto the plane but the holidays were beginning so it was all forgotten quickly especially with nirvana getting a real kick from the take off. Her first words on the plane were "pappa! pappa! we are high up!!" This was before take-off. Eventually the take-off excitement was replacement with some fear when the plane plateaued in the air leaving you with the floating stomach.
Both girls played lovely together most of the flight occassionally staring out the window. Landing at heathrow nirvana proclaimed with some concern "look mamma we're back here again!" I think we'll need to talk to the people that design airports.
The bustrip to oxford was hectic with kids running around and mamma and pappa tired and exhausted. Getting off at High st Turid and Nils were just around the corner holding the big floating kitty ballon.
we all had a lovely lunch w turids homemade cinnamonrolls and the girls went nuts with post-its notes! Turid made just another amazing dinner, pumpkin pie w broussel sprouts and peanut-spinache-chillie sauce! ).