În legătură cu infrastructura societăţii deschise, ar fi bună o lege, măcar în România, care să facă obligatorie folosirea sistemelor de operare open-source (gen Linux, FreeBSD) în şcoli şi administraţia publică. Asta se poate face treptat: – întâi toate computerele relativ autonome (care nu fac parte dintr’un sistem de aplicaţii bazate pe reţea) trec de [...]

Incidentally, today’s the national day of my country, Romania, but, more important, I’m proud to announce that I decided not to wait until Sloterdijk’s Spheres will be translated into English too and I got rid permanently of Microsoft Windows from the computers I’m using: I installed Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, Debian Linux on my [...]

This version managed to convert a couple of hundreds of sample articles from the arxiv-math. Because those sources vary widely in terms of metadata quality (author, date…etc. records), some of the converted articles look a bit messy. That’s the next Hermes version’s job: to get a bit wiser in terms of recovering the metadata, and [...]