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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from August 2013</title>
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  10                 <title>Intel 180 SSD disk with Lenovo firmware can not use Intel firmware</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2013 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Earlier, I reported about
  15 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_fix_a_Thinkpad_X230_with_a_broken_180_GB_SSD_disk.html&quot;&gt;my
  16 problems using an Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB disk&lt;/a&gt;.  Friday I was
  17 told by IBM that the original disk should be thrown away.  And as
  18 there no longer was a problem if I bricked the firmware, I decided
  19 today to try to install Intel firmware to replace the Lenovo firmware
  20 currently on the disk.&lt;/p&gt;
  21
  22 &lt;p&gt;I searched the Intel site for firmware, and found
  23 &lt;a href=&quot;https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&amp;ProdId=3472&amp;DwnldID=18363&amp;ProductFamily=Solid-State+Drives+and+Caching&amp;ProductLine=Intel%c2%ae+High+Performance+Solid-State+Drive&amp;ProductProduct=Intel%c2%ae+SSD+520+Series+(180GB%2c+2.5in+SATA+6Gb%2fs%2c+25nm%2c+MLC)&amp;lang=eng&quot;&gt;issdfut_2.0.4.iso&lt;/a&gt;
  24 (aka Intel SATA Solid-State Drive Firmware Update Tool) which
  25 according to the site should contain the latest firmware for SSD
  26 disks.  I inserted the broken disk in one of my spare laptops and
  27 booted the ISO from a USB stick.  The disk was recognized, but the
  28 program claimed the newest firmware already were installed and refused
  29 to insert any Intel firmware.  So no change, and the disk is still
  30 unable to handle write load. :( I guess the only way to get them
  31 working would be if Lenovo releases new firmware.  No idea how likely
  32 that is.  Anyway, just blogging about this test for completeness.  I
  33 got a working Samsung disk, and see no point in spending more time on
  34 the broken disks.&lt;/p&gt;
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  39                 <title>90 percent done with the Norwegian draft translation of Free Culture</title>
  40                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/90_percent_done_with_the_Norwegian_draft_translation_of_Free_Culture.html</link>
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  42                 <pubDate>Fri, 2 Aug 2013 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
  43                 <description>&lt;p&gt;It has been a while since my last update.  Since last summer, I
  44 have worked on a Norwegian
  45 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version of the 2004 book
  46 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig,
  47 to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with the copyright
  48 law.  Yesterday, I finally broken the 90% mark, when counting the
  49 number of strings to translate.  Due to real life constraints, I have
  50 not had time to work on it since March, but when the summer broke out,
  51 I found time to work on it again.  Still lots of work left, but the
  52 first draft is nearing completion.  I created a graph to show the
  53 progress of the translation:&lt;/p&gt;
  54
  55 &lt;p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;80%&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; src=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  56
  57 &lt;p&gt;When the first draft is done, the translated text need to be
  58 proof read, and the remaining formatting problems with images and SVG
  59 drawings need to be fixed.  There are probably also some index entries
  60 missing that need to be added.  This can be done by comparing the
  61 index entries listed in the SiSU version of the book, or comparing the
  62 English docbook version with the paper version.  Last, the colophon
  63 page with ISBN numbers etc need to be wrapped up before the release is
  64 done.  I should also figure out how to get correct Norwegian sorting
  65 of the index pages.  All docbook tools I have tried so far (xmlto,
  66 docbook-xsl, dblatex) get the order of symbols and the special
  67 Norwegian letters ÆØÅ wrong.&lt;/p&gt;
  68
  69 &lt;p&gt;There is still need for translators and people with docbook
  70 knowledge, to be able to get a good looking book (I still struggle
  71 with dblatex, xmlto and docbook-xsl) as well as to do the draft
  72 translation and proof reading.  And I would like the figures to be
  73 redrawn as SVGs to make it easy to translate them.  Any SVG master
  74 around?  There are also some legal terms that are unfamiliar to me.
  75 If you want to help, please get in touch with me, and check out the
  76 project files currently available from
  77 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  78
  79 &lt;p&gt;If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
  80 the updated
  81 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;
  82 and
  83 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true&quot;&gt;EPUB&lt;/a&gt;
  84 are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
  85 github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
  86 saw no point in linking to that version.&lt;/p&gt;
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