X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/d92811437f795412c6a59b7f3c2a78eacabfc8ea..53cac3215c3c99bdc3fdbe96ec2e77a6240dc670:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index e42e39614e..b8f9c7a1a8 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,121 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + Updated sales number for my Free Culture paper editions + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Updated_sales_number_for_my_Free_Culture_paper_editions.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Updated_sales_number_for_my_Free_Culture_paper_editions.html + Mon, 12 Jun 2017 11:40:00 +0200 + <p>It is pleasing to see that the work we put down in publishing new +editions of the classic <a href="http://www.free-culture.cc/">Free +Culture book</a> by the founder of the Creative Commons movement, +Lawrence Lessig, is still being appreciated. I had a look at the +latest sales numbers for the paper edition today. Not too impressive, +but happy to see some buyers still exist. All the revenue from the +books is sent to the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative +Commons Corporation</a>, and they receive the largest cut if you buy +directly from Lulu. Most books are sold via Amazon, with Ingram +second and only a small fraction directly from Lulu. The ebook +edition is available for free from +<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">Github</a>.</p> + +<table border="0"> +<tr><th rowspan="2" valign="bottom">Title / language</th><th colspan="3">Quantity</th></tr> +<tr><th>2016 jan-jun</th><th>2016 jul-dec</th><th>2017 jan-may</th></tr> + +<tr> + <td><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html">Culture Libre / French</a></td> + <td align="right">3</td> + <td align="right">6</td> + <td align="right">15</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + <td><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html">Fri kultur / Norwegian</a></td> + <td align="right">7</td> + <td align="right">1</td> + <td align="right">0</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + <td><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22440520.html">Free Culture / English</a></td> + <td align="right">14</td> + <td align="right">27</td> + <td align="right">16</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + <td>Total</td> + <td align="right">24</td> + <td align="right">34</td> + <td align="right">31</td> +</tr> + +</table> + +<p>A bit sad to see the low sales number on the Norwegian edition, and +a bit surprising the English edition still selling so well.</p> + +<p>If you would like to translate and publish the book in your native +language, I would be happy to help make it happen. Please get in +touch.</p> + + + + + Release 0.1.1 of free software archive system Nikita announced + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Release_0_1_1_of_free_software_archive_system_Nikita_announced.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Release_0_1_1_of_free_software_archive_system_Nikita_announced.html + Sat, 10 Jun 2017 00:40:00 +0200 + <p>I am very happy to report that the +<a href="https://github.com/hiOA-ABI/nikita-noark5-core">Nikita Noark 5 +core project</a> tagged its second release today. The free software +solution is an implementation of the Norwegian archive standard Noark +5 used by government offices in Norway. These were the changes in +version 0.1.1 since version 0.1.0 (from NEWS.md): + +<ul> + + <li>Continued work on the angularjs GUI, including document upload.</li> + <li>Implemented correspondencepartPerson, correspondencepartUnit and + correspondencepartInternal</li> + <li>Applied for coverity coverage and started submitting code on + regualr basis.</li> + <li>Started fixing bugs reported by coverity</li> + <li>Corrected and completed HATEOAS links to make sure entire API is + available via URLs in _links.</li> + <li>Corrected all relation URLs to use trailing slash.</li> + <li>Add initial support for storing data in ElasticSearch.</li> + <li>Now able to receive and store uploaded files in the archive.</li> + <li>Changed JSON output for object lists to have relations in _links.</li> + <li>Improve JSON output for empty object lists.</li> + <li>Now uses correct MIME type application/vnd.noark5-v4+json.</li> + <li>Added support for docker container images.</li> + <li>Added simple API browser implemented in JavaScript/Angular.</li> + <li>Started on archive client implemented in JavaScript/Angular.</li> + <li>Started on prototype to show the public mail journal.</li> + <li>Improved performance by disabling Sprint FileWatcher.</li> + <li>Added support for 'arkivskaper', 'saksmappe' and 'journalpost'.</li> + <li>Added support for some metadata codelists.</li> + <li>Added support for Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS).</li> + <li>Changed login method from Basic Auth to JSON Web Token (RFC 7519) + style.</li> + <li>Added support for GET-ing ny-* URLs.</li> + <li>Added support for modifying entities using PUT and eTag.</li> + <li>Added support for returning XML output on request.</li> + <li>Removed support for English field and class names, limiting ourself + to the official names.</li> + <li>...</li> + +</ul> + +<p>If this sound interesting to you, please contact us on IRC (#nikita +on irc.freenode.net) or email +(<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/nikita-noark">nikita-noark +mailing list).</p> + + + Idea for storing trusted timestamps in a Noark 5 archive http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Idea_for_storing_trusted_timestamps_in_a_Noark_5_archive.html @@ -537,106 +652,5 @@ provide Norwegian bokmål screen shots and figures.</p> - - Unlimited randomness with the ChaosKey? - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Unlimited_randomness_with_the_ChaosKey_.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Unlimited_randomness_with_the_ChaosKey_.html - Wed, 1 Mar 2017 20:50:00 +0100 - <p>A few days ago I ordered a small batch of -<a href="http://altusmetrum.org/ChaosKey/">the ChaosKey</a>, a small -USB dongle for generating entropy created by Bdale Garbee and Keith -Packard. Yesterday it arrived, and I am very happy to report that it -work great! According to its designers, to get it to work out of the -box, you need the Linux kernel version 4.1 or later. I tested on a -Debian Stretch machine (kernel version 4.9), and there it worked just -fine, increasing the available entropy very quickly. I wrote a small -test oneliner to test. It first print the current entropy level, -drain /dev/random, and then print the entropy level for five seconds. -Here is the situation without the ChaosKey inserted:</p> - -<blockquote><pre> -% cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail; \ - dd bs=1M if=/dev/random of=/dev/null count=1; \ - for n in $(seq 1 5); do \ - cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail; \ - sleep 1; \ - done -300 -0+1 oppføringer inn -0+1 oppføringer ut -28 byte kopiert, 0,000264565 s, 106 kB/s -4 -8 -12 -17 -21 -% -</pre></blockquote> - -<p>The entropy level increases by 3-4 every second. In such case any -application requiring random bits (like a HTTPS enabled web server) -will halt and wait for more entrpy. And here is the situation with -the ChaosKey inserted:</p> - -<blockquote><pre> -% cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail; \ - dd bs=1M if=/dev/random of=/dev/null count=1; \ - for n in $(seq 1 5); do \ - cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail; \ - sleep 1; \ - done -1079 -0+1 oppføringer inn -0+1 oppføringer ut -104 byte kopiert, 0,000487647 s, 213 kB/s -433 -1028 -1031 -1035 -1038 -% -</pre></blockquote> - -<p>Quite the difference. :) I bought a few more than I need, in case -someone want to buy one here in Norway. :)</p> - -<p>Update: The dongle was presented at Debconf last year. You might -find <a href="https://debconf16.debconf.org/talks/94/">the talk -recording illuminating</a>. It explains exactly what the source of -randomness is, if you are unable to spot it from the schema drawing -available from the ChaosKey web site linked at the start of this blog -post.</p> - - - - - Detect OOXML files with undefined behaviour? - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Detect_OOXML_files_with_undefined_behaviour_.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Detect_OOXML_files_with_undefined_behaviour_.html - Tue, 21 Feb 2017 00:20:00 +0100 - <p>I just noticed -<a href="http://www.arkivrad.no/aktuelt/riksarkivarens-forskrift-pa-horing">the -new Norwegian proposal for archiving rules in the goverment</a> list -<a href="http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm">ECMA-376</a> -/ ISO/IEC 29500 (aka OOXML) as valid formats to put in long term -storage. Luckily such files will only be accepted based on -pre-approval from the National Archive. Allowing OOXML files to be -used for long term storage might seem like a good idea as long as we -forget that there are plenty of ways for a "valid" OOXML document to -have content with no defined interpretation in the standard, which -lead to a question and an idea.</p> - -<p>Is there any tool to detect if a OOXML document depend on such -undefined behaviour? It would be useful for the National Archive (and -anyone else interested in verifying that a document is well defined) -to have such tool available when considering to approve the use of -OOXML. I'm aware of the -<a href="https://github.com/arlm/officeotron/">officeotron OOXML -validator</a>, but do not know how complete it is nor if it will -report use of undefined behaviour. Are there other similar tools -available? Please send me an email if you know of any such tool.</p> - - -