blog/archives/2010/11zack's home pagehttp://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/archives/2010/11/zack's home pageikiwiki2013-02-15T18:25:42Zh-index spoofinghttp://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2010/11/h-index_spoofing/2010-11-25T14:30:30Z2010-11-25T14:14:01Z
<h1>Next time you are asked your h-index ...</h1>
<p>Next time you are asked your <strong><a href=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/h%2Dindex">h-index</a></strong>, I
suggest replying by pointing to <a href=
"http://membres-lig.imag.fr/labbe/Publi/IkeAntkareSub.pdf">related
work</a> by Ike Antkare [1].</p>
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<td style="vertical-align: top">[1]</td>
<td>Ike Antkare. <a href=
"http://membres-lig.imag.fr/labbe/Publi/IkeAntkareSub.pdf"><em>Ike
Antkare one of the great stars in the scientific
firmament</em></a>.<br />
April, 2010.<br />
<kbd><a href=
"http://membres-lig.imag.fr/labbe/Publi/IkeAntkareSub.pdf">http://membres-lig.imag.fr/labbe/Publi/IkeAntkareSub.pdf</a></kbd>,<br />
retrieved November 25th, 2010.</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>Although some people still <a href=
"http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm">don't get it</a>, the bottom line
is always the same: you can't rely on a fully automatic method to
evaluate intelligent entities which are aware of the evaluation
method, as <a href=
"http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2007/11/5526-stop-the-numbers-game"><strong>
they are very likely to adapt to it</strong></a>. This is even more
so when the automatic method relies on a <a href=
"http://scholar.google.com">data source</a> which is not under the
control of the evaluator(s).</p>
<p><small>Thanks to <a href=
"http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog">Lucas</a> for sharing the
<a href="http://identi.ca/notice/59233858">bibliography
entry</a>.</small></p>
GNOME Awesome Applethttp://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2010/11/GNOME_Awesome_Applet/2013-02-15T18:25:42Z2010-11-24T17:15:24Z
<h1>using GNOME with Awesome without die trying</h1>
<p>I'm an avid <a href="http://www.gnome.org">GNOME</a> user, but I
don't want to give up <a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager">tiling</a> due
to that.</p>
<p>After <a href=
"http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2009/04/xmonad_+_gnome_on_Debian/">1.5 years with
xmonad+GNOME</a>, I've decided it was about time to give <a href=
"http://awesome.naquadah.org/">Awesome</a> another try. Last time I
tried, integration with GNOME was really sub-optimal; in particular
I've been it by the showstopping (for me) issue that it was not
possible, back then, to <a href=
"http://awesome.naquadah.org/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=503">
disable Awesome systray</a> in favor of GNOME's.</p>
<p>Nowadays, GNOME+Awesome integration is much better. It's very
easy to disable all you don't want of Awesome (including systray)
to rely upon corresponding GNOME desktop components (check my
<a href=
"http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2010/11/GNOME_Awesome_Applet/rc.lua">rc.lua</a> for
an example).</p>
<p>Still, by renouncing Wibox in favor of GNOME Panel, you (used
to) lack some features: (1) the ability to <strong>monitor the
current layout</strong>, (2) <strong>(GNOME) run application
prompt</strong>, and (3) <strong>Lua code prompt</strong>. It is to
overcome these limitations that I've hacked <a href=
"http://upsilon.cc/~zack/hacking/software/gnome-awesome-applet/"><strong>GNOME
Awesome Applet</strong></a>.</p>
<p>Version 0.1.0 is now available for download from the <a href=
"http://upsilon.cc/~zack/hacking/software/gnome-awesome-applet/">homepage</a>.
It's beta-quality and it's the first (hopefully last?) GNOME Applet
I've ever written, … you know the drill. Feedback, bug reports,
features requests, and <a href=
"http://git.upsilon.cc/?p=gnome-awesome-applet.git;a=summary">code</a>
patches are more than welcome.</p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>