+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Updated_sales_number_for_my_Free_Culture_paper_editions.html">Updated sales number for my Free Culture paper editions</a></div>
+ <div class="date">12th June 2017</div>
+ <div class="body"><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 some buyers still exist. All the revenue from the books are 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>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
<div class="entry">
<div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Release_0_1_1_of_free_software_archive_system_Nikita_announced.html">Release 0.1.1 of free software archive system Nikita announced</a></div>
<div class="date">10th June 2017</div>
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Unlimited_randomness_with_the_ChaosKey_.html">Unlimited randomness with the ChaosKey?</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 1st March 2017</div>
- <div class="body"><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>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
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