Archive for December, 2005

societate model

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

Pui şoarecilor câte’o maşină sub cur, la fiecare.
Atunci se duc afară din oraş, că se pot acuma, şi e linişte. Dup’aia’i dificil să mai intre, că locurile de parcare au început să coste.
Gică, cel cu cravată pe burta’i revărsată’ntr’un maieu negru cu găuri, şi păru’ pă spate, ‘ăl de le’a vândut maşinile, îi aşteaptă pe […]

Motive sa fii religios

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

Motive să fii religios:

frică (De ce, că te taie, încet, cu lama? Că’ţi putrezeşte pancreasu’? Că n’ai să faci copii, bani, casă? C’ai să’i faci? C’o să te bage la puşcărie? C’ai să mori?)
e slujba ta (ţi’ai zis că’i mai uşoară decât aia de jmekăr, mai puţin de’nvăţat)
vezi semne (semnele’s produs al culturii, […]

version 0.9.4

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Good news: Hermes development is partially supported until June 2006 by MPI for Gravitational Physics.
A more radical version of Hermes is in the works, 0.9.4 was the last one developed within the ‘deadline’ mindset.
My plan is to have a Hermes which generates a clean and validable document model, complete with the metadata necessary to store […]

blacklisting spam

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

There are several methods to block spam. Yet there are some stupid individuals (SpamHaus and the likes of them) who blacklist servers which sent spam.
These stupid individuals cannot imagine that the IP of a spamming server can be shared with the IP of an innocent domain, like roua.org here. As a result, no matter […]

open-access, comments on the TRS list of issues

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

TRS asks (by the way, TRS, please publish your statements in a reusable format, so I can quote your text accurately; printing it on paper, then scanning it and publishing the pdf containing the scan is much more expensive: I waste time retyping your text, somebody’s wasting time by manipulating such non-semantic objects; the modern […]

open-access, there you go

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Just happy that other people too have deep concerns about the open-access issue: Fellows of The Royal Society reacted promptly, with an open letter.
(The reader would be able to put things in context by perusing also the links therein, one of which is to the RCUK position statement on research outputs, june 2005.)
TRS’s president answered […]

open-access

Saturday, December 3rd, 2005

Some organization (The Royal Society, henceforth TRS) has published a position paper on open-access and it’s nagging me.
TRS starts with a slow introduction aiming to put the reader in a kind of open-access state for the ideas that follow (by suggesting they are in the open-access camp, but with some nuances): TRS states […]

Hermes source availability, funding issues

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

Although the XML examples are converted with a newer version of Hermes than 0.9.3, the source distribution of this newer version won’t be available for download until I get some (reliable promise of) funding explicitly for developing Hermes further (since October 2005), those who are in need can use alternative tools, like tex4ht, or continue […]