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+		<title>First draft Norwegian Bokmål edition of The Debian Administrator&#39;s Handbook now public</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_draft_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook_now_public.html</link>        
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_draft_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook_now_public.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;In April we
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook.html&quot;&gt;started
+to work&lt;/a&gt; on a Norwegian Bokmål edition of the &quot;open access&quot; book on
+how to set up and administrate a Debian system.  Today I am happy to
+report that the first draft is now publicly available.  You can find
+it on &lt;a href=&quot;https://debian-handbook.info/get/&quot;&gt;get the Debian
+Administrator&#39;s Handbook page&lt;/a&gt; (under Other languages).  The first
+eight chapters have a first draft translation, and we are working on
+proofreading the content.  If you want to help out, please start
+contributing using
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/debian-handbook/&quot;&gt;the
+hosted weblate project page&lt;/a&gt;, and get in touch using
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-handbook-translators&quot;&gt;the
+translators mailing list&lt;/a&gt;.  Please also check out
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://debian-handbook.info/contribute/&quot;&gt;the instructions for
+contributors&lt;/a&gt;.  A good way to contribute is to proofread the text
+and update weblate if you find errors.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Our goal is still to make the Norwegian book available on paper as well as
+electronic form.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>Coz can help you find bottlenecks in multi-threaded software - nice free software</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Coz_can_help_you_find_bottlenecks_in_multi_threaded_software___nice_free_software.html</link>        
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Coz_can_help_you_find_bottlenecks_in_multi_threaded_software___nice_free_software.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;This summer, I read a great article
+&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/summer2016/curtsinger&quot;&gt;coz:
+This Is the Profiler You&#39;re Looking For&lt;/a&gt;&quot; in USENIX ;login: about
+how to profile multi-threaded programs.  It presented a system for
+profiling software by running experiences in the running program,
+testing how run time performance is affected by &quot;speeding up&quot; parts of
+the code to various degrees compared to a normal run.  It does this by
+slowing down parallel threads while the &quot;faster up&quot; code is running
+and measure how this affect processing time.  The processing time is
+measured using probes inserted into the code, either using progress
+counters (COZ_PROGRESS) or as latency meters (COZ_BEGIN/COZ_END).  It
+can also measure unmodified code by measuring complete the program
+runtime and running the program several times instead.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The project and presentation was so inspiring that I would like to
+get the system into Debian.  I
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=830708&quot;&gt;created
+a WNPP request for it&lt;/a&gt; and contacted upstream to try to make the
+system ready for Debian by sending patches.  The build process need to
+be changed a bit to avoid running &#39;git clone&#39; to get dependencies, and
+to include the JavaScript web page used to visualize the collected
+profiling information included in the source package.
+But I expect that should work out fairly soon.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The way the system work is fairly simple.  To run an coz experiment
+on a binary with debug symbols available, start the program like this:
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+coz run --- program-to-run
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This will create a text file profile.coz with the instrumentation
+information.  To show what part of the code affect the performance
+most, use a web browser and either point it to
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://plasma-umass.github.io/coz/&quot;&gt;http://plasma-umass.github.io/coz/&lt;/a&gt;
+or use the copy from git (in the gh-pages branch).  Check out this web
+site to have a look at several example profiling runs and get an idea what the end result from the profile runs look like.  To make the
+profiling more useful you include &amp;lt;coz.h&amp;gt; and insert the
+COZ_PROGRESS or COZ_BEGIN and COZ_END at appropriate places in the
+code, rebuild and run the profiler.  This allow coz to do more
+targeted experiments.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A video published by ACM
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE0V-p1odPg&quot;&gt;presenting the
+Coz profiler&lt;/a&gt; is available from Youtube.  There is also a paper
+from the 25th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles available
+titled
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc16/technical-sessions/presentation/curtsinger&quot;&gt;Coz:
+finding code that counts with causal profiling&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/plasma-umass/coz&quot;&gt;The source code&lt;/a&gt;
+for Coz is available from github.  It will only build with clang
+because it uses a
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55606&quot;&gt;C++
+feature missing in GCC&lt;/a&gt;, but I&#39;ve submitted
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/plasma-umass/coz/pull/67&quot;&gt;a patch to solve
+it&lt;/a&gt; and hope it will be included in the upstream source soon.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Please get in touch if you, like me, would like to see this piece
+of software in Debian.  I would very much like some help with the
+packaging effort, as I lack the in depth knowledge on how to package
+C++ libraries.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>Sales number for the Free Culture translation, first half of 2016</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sales_number_for_the_Free_Culture_translation__first_half_of_2016.html</link>        
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sales_number_for_the_Free_Culture_translation__first_half_of_2016.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 5 Aug 2016 22:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;As my regular readers probably remember, the last year I published
+a French and Norwegian translation of the classic
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture book&lt;/a&gt; by the
+founder of the Creative Commons movement, Lawrence Lessig.  A bit less
+known is the fact that due to the way I created the translations,
+using docbook and po4a, I also recreated the English original.  And
+because I already had created a new the PDF edition, I published it
+too.  The revenue from the books are sent to the Creative Commons
+Corporation.  In other words, I do not earn any money from this
+project, I just earn the warm fuzzy feeling that the text is available
+for a wider audience and more people can learn why the Creative
+Commons is needed.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Today, just for fun, I had a look at the sales number over at
+Lulu.com, which take care of payment, printing and shipping.  Much to
+my surprise, the English edition is selling better than both the
+French and Norwegian edition, despite the fact that it has been
+available in English since it was first published.  In total, 24 paper
+books was sold for USD $19.99 between 2016-01-01 and 2016-07-31:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;table border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;Title / language&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Quantity&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html&quot;&gt;Culture Libre / French&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html&quot;&gt;Fri kultur / Norwegian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22440520.html&quot;&gt;Free Culture / English&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;14&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;/table&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The books are available both from Lulu.com and from large book
+stores like Amazon and Barnes&amp;Noble.  Most revenue, around $10 per
+book, is sent to the Creative Commons project when the book is sold
+directly by Lulu.com.  The other channels give less revenue.  The
+summary from Lulu tell me 10 books was sold via the Amazon channel, 10
+via Ingram (what is this?) and 4 directly by Lulu.  And Lulu.com tells
+me that the revenue sent so far this year is USD $101.42.  No idea
+what kind of sales numbers to expect, so I do not know if that is a
+good amount of sales for a 10 year old book or not.  But it make me
+happy that the buyers find the book, and I hope they enjoy reading it
+as much as I did.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The ebook edition is available for free from
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;Github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
 	<item>
 		<title>Vitenskapen tar som vanlig feil igjen - relativt feil</title>
 		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vitenskapen_tar_som_vanlig_feil_igjen___relativt_feil.html</link>        
@@ -17,7 +168,7 @@ argumentene fra den stadig vekk.  Teksten var «The Relativity of
 Wrong» som Isaac Asimov publiserte i Skeptical Inquirer i 1989.  Den
 gir litt perspektiv rundt formidlingen av vitenskapelige resultater.
 Jeg har hatt lyst til å kunne dele den også med folk som ikke
-behersker Engelsk så godt, som barn og noen av mine eldre slektninger,
+behersker engelsk så godt, som barn og noen av mine eldre slektninger,
 og har savnet å ha den tilgjengelig på norsk.  For to uker siden tok
 jeg meg sammen og kontaktet Asbjørn Dyrendal i foreningen Skepsis om
 de var interessert i å publisere en norsk utgave på bloggen sin, og da
@@ -28,7 +179,7 @@ fra Robyn Asimov som representerte arvingene i Asmiov-familien og gikk
 igang med oversettingen.&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;Resultatet, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skepsis.no/?p=1617&quot;&gt;«Relativt
-feil»&lt;/a&gt; ble publisert på skepsis-bloggen for noen minutter siden.
+feil»&lt;/a&gt;, ble publisert på skepsis-bloggen for noen minutter siden.
 Jeg anbefaler deg på det varmeste å lese denne teksten og dele den med
 dine venner.&lt;/p&gt;