X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/f844e390d285bd5ff5b8ad3cd72899585eecc5a7..264bf7b9967fff134d077b2873ccb2fb1e6487df:/blog/index.rss?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index f099cae730..4850f16ac9 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,35 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + French edition of Lawrence Lessigs book Cultura Libre on Amazon and Barnes & Noble + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_edition_of_Lawrence_Lessigs_book_Cultura_Libre_on_Amazon_and_Barnes___Noble.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_edition_of_Lawrence_Lessigs_book_Cultura_Libre_on_Amazon_and_Barnes___Noble.html + Sat, 21 May 2016 10:50:00 +0200 + <p>A few weeks ago the French paperback edition of Lawrence Lessigs +2004 book Cultura Libre was published. Today I noticed that the book +is now available from book stores. You can now buy it from +<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Libre-French-Lawrence-Lessig/dp/8269018260">Amazon</a> +($19.99), +<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/culture-libre-lawrence-lessig/1123776705">Barnes +& Noble</a> ($?) and as always from +<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html">Lulu.com</a> +($19.99). The revenue is donated to the Creative Commons project. If +you buy from Lulu.com, they currently get $10.59, while if you buy +from one of the book stores most of the revenue go to the book store +and the Creative Commons project get much (not sure how much +less).</p> + +<p>I was a bit surprised to discover that there is a kindle edition +sold by Amazon Digital Services LLC on Amazon. Not quite sure how +that edition was created, but if you want to download a electronic +edition (PDF, EPUB, Mobi) generated from the same files used to create +the paperback edition, they are +<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">available +from github</a>.</p> + + + I want the courts to be involved before the police can hijack a news site DNS domain (#domstolkontroll) http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_want_the_courts_to_be_involved_before_the_police_can_hijack_a_news_site_DNS_domain___domstolkontroll_.html @@ -336,54 +365,5 @@ available for many more languages.</p> - - One in two hundred Debian users using ZFS on Linux? - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/One_in_two_hundred_Debian_users_using_ZFS_on_Linux_.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/One_in_two_hundred_Debian_users_using_ZFS_on_Linux_.html - Thu, 7 Apr 2016 22:30:00 +0200 - <p>Just for fun I had a look at the popcon number of ZFS related -packages in Debian, and was quite surprised with what I found. I use -ZFS myself at home, but did not really expect many others to do so. -But I might be wrong.</p> - -<p>According to -<a href="https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=spl-linux">the popcon -results for spl-linux</a>, there are 1019 Debian installations, or -0.53% of the population, with the package installed. As far as I know -the only use of the spl-linux package is as a support library for ZFS -on Linux, so I use it here as proxy for measuring the number of ZFS -installation on Linux in Debian. In the kFreeBSD variant of Debian -the ZFS feature is already available, and there -<a href="https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=zfsutils">the popcon -results for zfsutils</a> show 1625 Debian installations or 0.84% of -the population. So I guess I am not alone in using ZFS on Debian.</p> - -<p>But even though the Debian project leader Lucas Nussbaum -<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/04/msg00006.html">announced -in April 2015</a> that the legal obstacles blocking ZFS on Debian were -cleared, the package is still not in Debian. The package is again in -the NEW queue. Several uploads have been rejected so far because the -debian/copyright file was incomplete or wrong, but there is no reason -to give up. The current status can be seen on -<a href="https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-zfsonlinux-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">the -team status page</a>, and -<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-zfsonlinux/zfs.git">the -source code</a> is available on Alioth.</p> - -<p>As I want ZFS to be included in next version of Debian to make sure -my home server can function in the future using only official Debian -packages, and the current blocker is to get the debian/copyright file -accepted by the FTP masters in Debian, I decided a while back to try -to help out the team. This was the background for my blog post about -<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creating__updating_and_checking_debian_copyright_semi_automatically.html">creating, -updating and checking debian/copyright semi-automatically</a>, and I -used the techniques I explored there to try to find any errors in the -copyright file. It is not very easy to check every one of the around -2000 files in the source package, but I hope we this time got it -right. If you want to help out, check out the git source and try to -find missing entries in the debian/copyright file.</p> - - -