Alexander Mikhailian

Anyone working at least part-time as an employee in Belgium can opt for his own part-time business. This is even mandatory if you have a constant revenue stream coming from the side projects.

At first sight, this option looks very competitive. You pay lower social charges and retain all the benefits of the employee position while being able to exercise the secondary activity in your spare time.

On the taxation side, things look much dimmer. Let's assume that you are a full-time employee in IT and want to do some consulting on the side. You probably have a rather high salary, that attains already, although barely, the highest 53.50% tax level. This is realistic for many IT professionals.

You do your first project and charge your client 1000 €, including VAT. How much will you have left after the taxes?

Well, that's easy. You pay subsequently 21% of VAT, 22% in social charges, and then 53.50% of the income tax, which amounts to

1000*0.79*0.78*0.4650=286.53 €

286.53 € out of that nifty pay-check of 1000 € that you just thought will go into your pocket.

You were expecting to get more, and you start to look for ways to avoid taxation. Fortunately, this is possible by going to the natural economy instead of the monetary one. That is, you try to increase your expenses and reduce the monetary profits.

I am probably the last webmaster in the world to ban Yahoo! Slurp from indexing my sites. Now, I am resolved. Bye-bye, Yahoo! You were just behaving too badly.

iptables -A INPUT -s 66.196.64.0/18 -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -s 68.142.192.0/18 -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -s 72.30.0.0/16 -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -s 74.6.0.0/16 -j DROP

Les tirages des quotidiens francophones en Belgique ont diminué de 19% sur la période de dix ans, de 1997 à 2007. C'est la conclusion que je tire des statistiques du CIM, publiée sur leur site et complétés par les chiffres de 1997 venant d'un dossier thématique de la Revue Nouvelle. Malheureusement, je n'ai pas sû trouver les chiffres des tirages des quotidiens flamands en 1997. D'après les statistiques des années 2003-2007 disponibles sur le site de CIM, les quotidiens flamands doivent se porter mieux que les francophones.

Traditionellement, j'inclus ci-dessous les chiffres crus, ainsi que le script gnuplot

données:

"Journal" 1997 2007
"L'Echo" 27449 24696
"Vers l'avenir" 131155 110559
"La Derniere Heure" 101327 110124
"La Libre Belgique" 73103 56808
"Le Soir" 178569 112265

script:

set terminal png enhanced
set output "evaluation.png"
set boxwidth 1 absolute
set style fill  solid 1.00 border -1
set style histogram clustered gap 2 title

set style data histograms
set xtics rotate
set yrange [ 0 : 200000]

plot 'graph.dat' u 2:xtic(1) ti col, '' u 3 ti col

I did this a few times in my life, and every time it was painful to reconstruct the necessary toolset and configuration options. So, here it goes. First, enable the proxy support.

~# a2enmod proxy # utility functions
~# a2enmod proxy_http # http forwarding
~# a2enmod proxy_html # html rewriting
~# a2enmod headers # http headers rewriting

Then, assuming that your web application runs on port 3031 on the same host as Apache, and you want to make it available at the /demo url in Apache, write the following in the Apache config:

<IfModule mod_proxy.c>
  <IfModule mod_proxy_http.c>
    <IfModule mod_proxy_html.c>
      <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        ProxyRequests Off
        <Proxy *>
                Order deny,allow
                Allow from all
        </Proxy>

        ProxyPass  /demo http://localhost:3301
        ProxyPassReverse /demo http://localhost:3301
        <Location "/demo">
            # ask the localhost to return the uncompressed HTML
            RequestHeader   unset   Accept-Encoding
            # Filter Responses through mod_proxy_html
            SetOutputFilter proxy-html
            # convert URLs in CSS and JavaScript as well
            ProxyHTMLExtended On
            # convert URLs in a.hrefs
            ProxyHTMLURLMap ^/ /demo/ R 
            # convert URLs in CSS and JS
            ProxyHTMLURLMap "'/" "'/demo/" 
            # convert URLs in CSS and JS
            ProxyHTMLURLMap "\"/" "\"/demo/" 
        </Location>
      </IfModule>
    </IfModule>
  </IfModule>
</IfModule>

Вчера зааплоадил окончательнию версию статьи на конференцию. Отправился домой спать, ночью как раз дедлайн для подачи статей закончился. С утра получаю получаю паническое мыло от организаторов -- мол, так и так, срочно пришлите сорцы для статьи. Ну, я посылаю сорцы, потом думаю — в чём дело? В веб-интерфейсе можно аплоадить всего 2 типа документов: Doc и PDF. Я всё сделал по инструкции. Потом понял: все остальные авторы зааплоадили Doc, вот вам и сорцы готовые. Один я послал PDF.

Кстати, на сайте конференции говорится, что стили для статей нужно брать на сайте LNCS, а там доступны только стили для LaTeX. Как другие авторы умудрились написать в Ворде — не понимаю.