Andrey Vystavkin Blog

Heck! I was expecting some power consumption improvements, but still 4 hours XP vs. 2 hours Gusty.

Trying to make this post useful, follow these lines:

And remember: the more you misspell these three lines the longer upgrade will be! Be aware of grammar mistakes, folks!

I’ll try to make things short by quoting Richard Stallman:

Control over the use of one’s ideas really constitutes control over other people’s lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

Watching these patent wars between Novell, Red Hat versus IP Innovation just makes me wondering: how hard will it be to distribute ideas in the world where everything is patented?

It’s been 22 days, since I haven’t updated the blog up to the newest version available on-line for Wordpress. Reasons: a lot of problems in developers stage due to the changes of some concepts. The most curious guys can subscribe to developers mailing lists and check what’s going on in there.

Mentioning the upgrades:

• Platform update (It’s buggy with some themes so be careful, or the themes I’ve chosen were made in a weird way…)
• Cleared up registered users(those who were mistakenly deleted - are welcomed in comment sections)
• Design change (Sometimes you get tired of colours and lines)
• Categories/Tags combination is being kept for usability reasons
• Integrated Google search (I believe Google can search better, however, those you need specifically results from my blog can check the search bar in the footer of the site)
• Email subscription option (If you prefer receiving updates via e-mail check the links in the footer)

Hope that changes were made for good.

Due to the faculty specifics, most of the forth course classmates took Robotics & Automation course this semester.

For catching up the idea of automation procedures, the teacher gave us a small NXT Robot to play around. I couldn’t remember when was the last time I did these Lego stuff, however this NXT amazed me a lot.

This small “toy” is equipped with:

• Light Sensor (black and white spectrum)
• Ultrasound Sensor
• Bump Sensor
• Sound Sensor

Lots of things to play around, especially taking in account the programmatic aspects of NXT generation and Open Source C compiler for these robots: RobotC project.

Evince:

• Problems with pdf rendering after .chm to .pdf convertion
• 80 Mb RAM usage

Adobe Reader 8:

• Correct font rendering in non-native pdf formats
• Correct pdf output with original .pdf’s.
• 40 Mb RAM usage

So, what are the changes for the last year in Frederick?

• I’m on my 4th year, doing bachelor.
• To end up with 60 ECTS credits, I’d have to take 7 subjects in average this year
• Small amount of subjects added
• Price increas, so far up to 4200 CYP annually (if there’s no scholarships)
• Want to participate in Frederic Research Centre - easily, just catch needed supervisor!
• MSc in Information Technologies from Frederick will be launched by the next year.
• MSc in IT exists in FIT, but it’s provided by Herriot Watt University.

As you can see, nothing special so far added or changed, thus the hype slowly goes down with the fact that Frederick Institute of Technology (FIT) has become Frederick University Cyprus (FUC).