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Romania says yes to OOXML once again

Skippy — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:16:38 +0000

On March 26, Dan Matei, the president of CT210, the Technical Comittee within ASRO in charge of OOXML, made public the results of Romania's decision regarding the adoption of OOXML as an ISO standard: 15 votes for it, 6 votes against and 5 abstentions. Read on for the dirty details.

Agregarea de trafic: furt sau practică acceptată?

Skippy — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:39:32 +0000

Se dau două site-uri: unul nou, unul vechi şi cu trafic mare. Cele două îşi comasează traficul în sistemele de tracking. Este un furt sau o practică perfect normală?

ODF contra OOXML

Skippy — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:35:06 +0000

Domneşte o mare confuzie în rîndul publicului românesc în jurul OOXML, în general, şi al acceptării sale ca standard ISO, precum şi a comparaţiei cu ODF, în particular. Să încercăm să risipim măcar parţial această confuzie.

Important changes in store for the .ro ccTLD

Skippy — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:12:03 +0000

After more than a decade of amateurish management and abuse, .ro domains may finally undergo important changes. Read on to see what went wrong, how wrong it went, what should be done and what is supposed to happen come this autumn.

Romanian politicians still resist the OLPC project

Skippy — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:52:56 +0000

Back in July I was writing how the Information and Technology Minister, Mr. Zsolt Nagy, was expressing a negative opinion about a project which would bring 5 million 100$ dollar laptops to Romania.

Back then, the Minister proved he didn’t do his basic homework in regard to this project. But it wasn’t his place to [...]

Web content gone terribly wrong

Skippy — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:53:08 +0000

A political refugee's childhood picture has been used without permission by a newspaper in a context that implies, ironically, that she had been one of the children who have collaborated with the infamous secret agency "Securitatea" during the Ceauşescu dictatorship regime.

Romanian copyright enforcement: level 2

Skippy — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:41:53 +0000

In the light of the recent copyright enforcement operations in Romania, a counterfeiting and piracy international Congress suddenly apears in a grim, hopefully misguided, posture. Intention or incompetence?

Romanians learn about copyright

Skippy — Fri, 26 May 2006 09:59:20 +0000

After having swept the rug from under the feet of legitimate IT businesses in Romania, the ever resourceful Romanian government now tackles another long standing IT-related problem: software and music or movie piracy among end-users. By force, naturally.

Big Brother wants search engine data

Skippy — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:32:39 +0000

Completely out of the blue, the USA Department of Justice demanded hefty chunks of search logs from several big search engines. The request is not connected to any ongoing criminal investigation. Allegedly, they need it to substantiate a would-be anti-pornography law.

Online newspaper rats visitor out to secret services

Skippy — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:34:43 +0000

The newspaper "Cotidianul" tracked down the identity of a regular visitor and eventually caused him to be fired because they suspected he was a member of a secret agency. (He was, although that's beside the point.)