Andrey Vystavkin Blog

Few days ago, my boss start going around the project deadlines, hoping that I’ll submit everything on time.Having a bad experience dealing with IT’s, a guy has been doing dump HTML with few PHP includes for about two years.No wonder, why he was amazed when I told him that all the projects would be finished by the beginning of August.

Keeping these deadlines in mind, the boss started to look for even faster alternative solutions. Well, and he found some.

Today’s working day started from the conversation, whether it’d be useful to buy a ready-made solution for his website, so I’ve decided to take a look at what he’s found:

1. Portfolio of 8 sites with “asdf” test data.
2. Admin is accessible with “admin/admin” username password combination
3. 7 out of 8 sites got partially finished control panels - working only 30% of it. (Data mismatch, no input validations, or JS validation only)

But the site my boss was especially interested in just rocked my heart. Here’s a screenshot:

It’s like: pay first, and you might get this CMS later

Good news, KDE team started migration of original KDE applications for Windows platform. Concerning windows.kde.org, users of Windows XP/2000/2003 can easily install famous apps like Konqueror, Kate and others on their machines, via KDE-installer.

If some of the applications don’t work from the beginning, just add KDEDIRS and Path in your Control Panel, as it’s described in the manual.

So far, I found only one minor thing: I couldn’t manage applications via Konqueror, however it needs some googling.

In general, lots of positive feelings for this great move of KDE, because some of the apps in KDE can’t be compared with Windows scanty alternatives.

Here is a Linux Virus scanner for you:

References go to Ubuntuforums

Updates: First add-on for Linux Antivirus released, just add few lines at the bottom of the code:

Yep, it’s the 31st of December, 5 am and I finally got some time doing my projects for the semester. As far as there’s coffee time is a minor problem.

The major problem is that every time I got in touch with two persons (Leonid and Alex), the things just turn upside down.

I’ve noticed a small pattern in the talks with these folks:

1. Conversation on C with Leonid. In a week, I receive an assignment on C for Robotics due Christmas vacations
2. Conversation on Perl with Alex. In few days, I’m starting to write a tiny crawler I need for my Bachelor project
3. Few replicas on Regular Expression new book with Leonid. Sitting and learning Regexp for crawler.

Guys, why don’t you tell me something more positive, like, I’m going to get a million bucks on a New Year?! I’ll share it - 50/50, c’mon

Dmitry Chestnykh gives a nice review of Russian piracy, and the reasons of its appearance, stating “laziness” as its main cause.

Definitely, a lack of shopping services and/or its inability of serving transaction procedures is also one of the statements, here I agree with Dmitry.

However, I’m curious how many people really buy software products in Russia, because a simple googling will give bunch of forums and portals where you can find tones of cracks; thus using a cracked software becomes really easy. Prising policy is definitely another cause, but it’s 21th century - we’ve got lots of open-source software solutions which in some points are better then paid software products.

And when are they going to purchase software or any other products paying for them?..

It’s already 8 years, when the first movie from Matrix trilogy came out. After a couple of times, watching it with friends at the beginning I liked it. Some interesting ideas, scenario approaches, story line.

Comparing it with those movies released in 1999, Matrix was awesome. But I’ve never thought of the facts like:

• Agent Smith looks like a typical garbage collector with AI encapsulations. Could you imagine this utility with some humour and irony nowadays.
• Neo. A tiny bug in the system with machine learning capabilities. Of course, later on we’ll understand that’s not just a simple bug, however knowing the story in full, looks a bit amusing.
• Piphia, or a lady with a vase. Statistical path analyser. Looks like a Best-cost algorithm with some sophisticated evaluation functionality and a sense of humour. So you shouldn’t worry about the vase!
• Cypher, or a bad good guy. A very very greedy bug - impossible of being fixed - thus, rewritten from scratch or simply deleted.
• Switch,or the only girl in white. Very small and fast transition from “enable” to “disable” states in the movie!
• Mouse, or lady-in-red boyfriend. C’mon, there should be at least one kid hacker, otherwise that’s not a hacker movie!

Waiting to watch the Matrix Reload, hopefully, so more amusing computer alternatives will appear which I didn’t noticed back to its premier.