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  10                 <title>First rough draft Norwegian and Spanish edition of the book Made with Creative Commons</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I am working on publishing yet another book related to Creative
  15 Commons.  This time it is a book filled with interviews and histories
  16 from those around the globe making a living using Creative
  17 Commons.&lt;/p&gt;
  18
  19 &lt;p&gt;Yesterday, after many months of hard work by several volunteer
  20 translators, the first draft of a Norwegian Bokmål edition of the book
  21 &lt;a href=&quot;https://madewith.cc&quot;&gt;Made with Creative Commons from 2017&lt;/a&gt;
  22 was complete.  The Spanish translation is also complete, while the
  23 Dutch, Polish, German and Ukraine edition need a lot of work.  Get in
  24 touch if you want to help make those happen, or would like to
  25 translate into your mother tongue.&lt;/p&gt;
  26
  27 &lt;p&gt;The whole book project started when
  28 &lt;a href=&quot;http://gwolf.org/node/4102&quot;&gt;Gunnar Wolf announced&lt;/a&gt; that he
  29 was going to make a Spanish edition of the book.  I noticed, and
  30 offered some input on how to make a book, based on my experience with
  31 translating the
  32 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html&quot;&gt;Free
  33 Culture&lt;/a&gt; and
  34 &lt;a href=&quot;https://debian-handbook.info/get/#norwegian&quot;&gt;The Debian
  35 Administrator&#39;s Handbook&lt;/a&gt; books to Norwegian Bokmål.  To make a
  36 long story short, we ended up working on a Bokmål edition, and now the
  37 first rough translation is complete, thanks to the hard work of
  38 Ole-Erik Yrvin, Ingrid Yrvin, Allan Nordhøy and myself.  The first
  39 proof reading is almost done, and only the second and third proof
  40 reading remains.  We will also need to translate the 14 figures and
  41 create a book cover.  Once it is done we will publish the book on
  42 paper, as well as in PDF, ePub and possibly Mobi formats.&lt;/p&gt;
  43
  44 &lt;p&gt;The book itself originates as a manuscript on Google Docs, is
  45 downloaded as ODT from there and converted to Markdown using pandoc.
  46 The Markdown in modified by a script before is converted to DocBook
  47 using pandoc.  The DocBook is modified again using a script before it
  48 is used to create a Gettext POT file for translators.  The translated
  49 PO file is then combined with the earlier mentioned DocBook file to
  50 create a translated DocBook file, which finally is given to dblatex to
  51 create the final PDF.  The end result is a set of editions of the
  52 manuscript, one English and one for each of the translations.&lt;/p&gt;
  53
  54 &lt;p&gt;The translation is conducted using
  55 &lt;a href=&quot;https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/madewithcc/translation/&quot;&gt;the
  56 Weblate web based translation system&lt;/a&gt;.  Please have a look there
  57 and get in touch if you would like to help out with proof
  58 reading. :)&lt;/p&gt;
  59
  60 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
  61 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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  67                 <title>Debian used in the subway info screens in Oslo, Norway</title>
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  70                 <pubDate>Fri, 2 Mar 2018 13:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
  71                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Today I was pleasantly surprised to discover my operating system of
  72 choice, Debian, was used in the info screens on the subway stations.
  73 While passing Nydalen subway station in Oslo, Norway, I discovered the
  74 info screen booting with some text scrolling.  I was not quick enough
  75 with my camera to be able to record a video of the scrolling boot
  76 screen, but I did get a photo from when the boot got stuck with a
  77 corrupt file system:
  78
  79 &lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;center&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg&quot; alt=&quot;[photo of subway info screen]&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  80
  81 &lt;p&gt;While I am happy to see Debian used more places, some details of the
  82 content on the screen worries me.&lt;/p&gt;
  83
  84 &lt;p&gt;The image show the version booting is &#39;Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid&#39;,
  85 indicating that this is based on code taken from Debian Unstable/Sid
  86 after Debian Etch (version 4) was released 2007-04-08 and before
  87 Debian Lenny (version 5) was released 2009-02-14.  Since Lenny Debian
  88 has released version 6 (Squeeze) 2011-02-06, 7 (Wheezy) 2013-05-04, 8
  89 (Jessie) 2015-04-25 and 9 (Stretch) 2017-06-15, according to
  90 &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history&quot;&gt;a Debian
  91 version history on Wikpedia&lt;/a&gt;.  This mean the system is running
  92 around 10 year old code, with no security fixes from the vendor for
  93 many years.&lt;/p&gt;
  94
  95 &lt;p&gt;This is not the first time I discover the Oslo subway company,
  96 Ruter, running outdated software.  In 2012,
  97 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Er_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_uten_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_.html&quot;&gt;I
  98 discovered the ticket vending machines were running Windows 2000&lt;/a&gt;,
  99 and this was
 100 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fortsatt_ingen_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_for_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_.html&quot;&gt;still
 101 the case in 2016&lt;/a&gt;.  Given the response from the responsible people
 102 in 2016, I would assume the machines are still running unpatched
 103 Windows 2000.  Thus, an unpatched Debian setup come as no surprise.&lt;/p&gt;
 104
 105 &lt;p&gt;The photo is made available under the license terms
 106 &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons
 107 4.0 Attribution International (CC BY 4.0)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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 109 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
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