Andrey Vystavkin Blog

Not so long time ago, Apple released Safari for Windows platform, and as the result this browser gained some popularity on Win machines. At least, that’s what you can see from my Google Analytics charts.

Of course, each blog’s got different stats and measurements on visitors browsers, however I do like this achievements of Apple Inc.

What would really enhance the popularity of Safari is plug-in development community, because so far it’s not small. It’s terribly weak: 6 plug-ins.C’mon, it’s ridiculous!

However, every time I surf through various popular sources, IT portals, and so forth, around 30% of the posts are just trolling on some outdated topics:

• What’s the best Operating System?
• What’s cooler: Windows/Mac vs. Linux?
• China/Russia is an evil country: discussions about firewalls, rockets, nukes, and oil/democracy conflicts
• Opera Browser is rubbish or why do you like Firefox so much? What about IE7?
• Microsoft vs. Open-Source: they buy, we sell. Who’s true open-source and who’s not?!

So far, that’s what came to my mind. If you got other trolling topics to add, be my guest!

Updated:

• Vi vs. Emacs: best editor? (updated by Leonid)

Some of you already know that for my senior Bachelor project I decided to do Robotics & Automation, since it is a brand new field of study for me.

Due to the fact that this project includes a lot of sensor fusion techniques and algorithms for positioning, I had to go through lots of IEEE research papers, since our university library in Limassol doesn’t have many books on the subject.

What I noticed was the fact that most of the research work goes from Northern Europe and Northern part of the USA:

• Germany
• USA (particularly UMC and MIT research centres)
• Finland

This is just a shallow list of countries involved in the research, however there are more to add. I’m not taking Japan or South Korea in account since this field of science is quiet popular there and it’s Asia - it’s completely different story. The main question of this article is: will this type of computer science and engineering become popular in Cyprus?

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After adding Personalized Google search in the sidebar, I didn’t have a chance to test my blog template with all web browsers.

Thus, I make apologize to 24% of j4vk blog visitors using IE6, Google searchbar screwed up the sidebar layout (which you could have found at the bottom of the site).

Now everything seems to be fine in IE6, IE7, Firefox 2.0.0.8, and Safari 3.

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.