The good news is that this is super simple to fix.

As for bad news… well, there is none, this time. With these instructions, and the ones from part I, I was able to do a complete tax e-deklaration in Skatteverket’s page, including signing the final submission.

The Problem

You can’t sign things (with the non-repudiation certificate), at least not with the version 4.10.2.16 of Nexus Personal.

The Reason

This is because Firefox lacks the plugin. The Nexus Personal installer copies it into a weird place.

The Solution

Fix the situation by copying the browser plugin to a proper place:

cp /usr/local/lib/personal/libplugins.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

Then restart Firefox.

Write “about:plugins” to the address bar and ensure Nexus Personal is there. The plugin should claim to accept MIME types such as “application/x-personal-signer”, and all of those should be enabled (all rows have “Yes”).

Now you can fill your skattedeklaration online, AND sign it too. Enjoy!

You need the “pocket calculator” cardreader (I used Todos NCR1), a suitable USB cable and a card with an EMV chip. If you have Nordea-issued bankkort or VISA you’re OK.

Note: These instructions are Debian-specific but they should work with other distros too with appropriate, slight changes.

Update: Signing will most likely be broken for you, but you can fix the signing too.

Step 1. Get the driver + Nexus personal

Go to this Nordea page to download.

Interestingly, I could not find the page from within Nordea’s web page. Also, the information on that page was not in the same place as for the other OSs (Windows, MacOSX). No pain, no gain!

Step 2. Activate e-Legitimation on your card

Log in to Nordea’s web site. Then go to Vardagsärenden, e-legitimation, kort and choose activate. Sign with the Todos box as usual.

Click the link to go back to cards page. You should see your cards in Inaktiv status.

Click Aktivera. Tick the box for Uttag activation, and proceed.

Now you need to go to an ATM and make a money withdrawal. This will finally activate e-legitimation in your card by downloading some data from the bank.

Step 3. Install the software

Yeah, I wish it were all open source, in case of problems… but it’s not. Take a deep breath and prepare to install some Chinese driver binaries, plus a binary-only browser plugin, etc.

But first verify that you get printout like the following when you:

• attach the USB cable to your Todos box
• issue “dmesg” command


[4332544.912080] usb 2-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
[4332545.162128] usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0b0c, idProduct=002e
[4332545.162142] usb 2-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[4332545.162151] usb 2-3: Product: Nordea E-code
[4332545.162158] usb 2-3: Manufacturer: Todos Data System AB
[4332545.162369] usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice


If that was OK, proceed. Otherwise make your USB work :)

Next, you need pcscd and libccid.

apt-get install pcscd and libccid

Unzip the Nexus and do as root:

./install.4.10.2.16.sh i

Unzip + install the driver:

unzip NCR1_Linux.zip

The zip contains a .deb so you’ll need to install it too:

dpkg --install NordeaDeb_1.0.0_i386.deb

Now the software part is done.

Step 4. Test drive

Restart Firefox.

Start Nexus application. Attach Todos reader NCR1 with USB cable. Insert your card. You should see something other than “Unknown” in it.

Nordea’s own test page is broken – they expect Microsoft Internet Explorer (maybe some ActiveX control too) for some totally screwball reason, I did not investigate this further. So it’s best to try e.g. Skatteverket’s page where you can check your Skattekonto.

Note: When prompted for a certificate, choose the certificate with “Basic PIN” in it. The other option did not work for me.

Enter your card PIN in the Todos box when prompted.

The web page should open properly, now you’ve got e-Legitimation!

This one is slightly thai-influenced in its taste, and extremely quick and simple to do.

You need:

• 2 cans asparagus
• 1 paprika
• 1 yellow onion
• 200-300 g frozen prawns
• vegetable broth (1 bouillon cube)
• 5 dl water
• 2 dl cream
• salt, pepper, chili powder, sumac
• fresh coriander

Rinse the canned asparagus in a strainer until no foam appears. Wait until the water drizzles out, then dump into a pot.

De-seed the paprika. Slice it into big chunks. Then dump into the pot.

Peel and roughly hack the onion, throw it into the pot.

Put bouillon cube and 5 dl water into the pot. Heat it up and boil for some time, until paprika has softened and the cube has completely dissolved.

Take the pot off the stove and use a wand blender aka. immersion blender to puree the vegetables to make a fluid paste.

Pour in the cream and mix well. Put the pot back to the stove and use medium-high temperature.

Let heat up for a while, add pepper and salt. TASTE before adding the salt as the bouillon cube can be salty! Also mix in chili powder and sumac to taste.

Next, dump in the frozen prawns. Mix well, bring to boil.

Soup must be hot but do not overcook the prawns.

Take about 3 palm-fulls of coriander leaves, and hack them into small pieces. Dump the hacked coriander into the soup. Mix well.

Done!

Enjoy with some fresh white bread and (cold) butter over the bread.

For drinks, if you want to be fancy for this ad-hoc soup, try white wine or lager beer. Maybe a nice Riesling for the wine, and Red Stripe for the beer.

Ingredients:

• 4 cl of Red Opal (Icelandic salmiac-menthol vodka)
• a squeeze of lemon juice
• freshly ground black pepper

Enjoy!

Thanks to Zac Thompson and Christophe-Marie Duquesne, there is now:

• Fix for invisible NonText-group
• Various fixes and fine-tunings for Terminal and UI modes for Ignore-, NonText- and Error-groups.
• Vimball installable version, see vim.sf.net.

Grab it from vim.sf.net or from the official Zenburn page.

Enjoy!

Changes: support for coloring Ignore-groups (thanks to John Gabriele). The Ignore-group coloring is toggleable, see the file for details.

Grab it from vim.sf.net or from the official Zenburn page.

In practice, the Vim help files will change from this (click pictures to show them bigger):

to this:

I send you an adaption of the zenburn colour scheme for SciTE v. 1.78. To install it on a Windows machine, just copy the *.properties files into the SciTE installation folder.

Gianfranco continues:

After a week of daily usage, certain styles do not completely convince me yet (mainly the ones regarding the bookmarking, due to how SciTE manages bookmarks highlighting – only background colours change), but I’ve decided to release it in the hope that some one else will do a better job.

Note 1: the attached SciTEGlobal.properties file contains some non standard settings; to rollback to the standard configuration, set the USE_CUSTOM_SETTINGS variable declared at line 7 to 0.

Note 2: to disable the colour scheme, comment out the “import colours” command in the SciTEGlobal.properties file, line 8.

Note 3: since SciTE allows a per-language configuration, c/c++, sql, python, xml/html, bat/cmd and mak file configurations are available. Other language support files are welcome!

Thank you, Gianfranco!

Here’s a link to his Zenburn for SciTE v1.78. SciTE users, feel free to submit enhancements and improvements!

Let’s hear it from the man himself :)

“This was applied to EasyEclipse for Python 1.3.1, but I guess it should work well with simple Eclipse + PyDev combo as well.

First, go to Window -> Preferences. Now, select PyDev. You should see “Appearance color options:” section with a list of code elements and color-representing button left to it. To change a color for the element, click that button, then set the custom color in R/G/B palette (=copy-paste the RGB triplet to the “Color Name” box –slinky). The colors and font styles I used are the following:

• Code: #d8d8c8
• Decorators: #30d230, italic
• Numbers: #8cc8c8
• Matching Brackets: #408080
• Keywords: #f0dcaf, bold
• Self: #d8c8c8, italic
• Strings: #c89191, italic
• Comments: #82aa8c, italic
• Backquotes: not really sure what that is, so don’t know what color it should be using. Set one of your own.
• Class: #f0f08c, bold (I personally use #c8c84b, but that’s my little mindbugs =) )
• Function: #f0f08c, bold

Ok. Now, still in the Preferences window, select General/Text Editors. There’s same “Appearance color options:” section. Set:

• Line Number Foreground: #9bafaf
• Current Line Highlight: #555555
• Print Margin: #808080
• Find Scope: #555564
• Selection Foreground: #be19a0 (this one is based on Vim’s crazy omnicompletion background, my pick)
• Selection Background: #555555
• Background color: #3f3f3f

That should do it.”

Thank you abchernin!

See below for screenshots:

ZenBurn in EasyEclipse, windowed mode

Zenburn in EasyEclipse, maximized

It works only against the SVN version of STP, but is trivial (although not automatic) to patch the latest non-SVN version also. To patch, cd to the STP folder, then use something like patch -R -p1 < stp_dimacs.patch

Then, use the "-o" switch to dump a DIMACS file to the current folder. Next, fire up your favorite SAT solver and profit...

Update: It seems the toDimacs call can create strange outputs. Be aware of bugs!

Here’s a Python script called split_pic.py to split an image of your choosing into two shares as described by the Naor-Shamir “visual cryptography” scheme. See the script for details.

The script requires PIL (Python Image Library). The outputs are two files, “share1.png” and “share2.png”. Print share1.png on paper, and share2.png on transparency/foil/plastic and carefully align them on top of each other to see the hidden image.

Or, you can use an image editor such as Gimp. Note, the layer effect must be “multiply” for both layers.

Here are two examples you can play with:

First share of the hidden image

Second share of the hidden image