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May 20th, 2008
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Brands show your intelligence
January 21st, 2008
and now a study proves that “Mac people” indeed are more liberal and open-minded than average folks.
If you’re using PC, you’re conservative and close-minded average person living on this planet. The quote is a bit stupid, isn’t it?
Licenses, patents and ideas
October 17th, 2007
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?
Frederick University Cyprus: tiny upgrades
October 3rd, 2007
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).
ROS: Russian Operating System
September 20th, 2007
It’s been a while since these talks started. There have been a lot of “for” and “against” opinions concerning the creation of a particular operating system which can be called Russian.
On the 15th of September, in Sochi, the Academy of Information Technologies and Federal Bureau of Technical and Export Control authorized Mandriva Linux distro as a stable Linux version for corporate use.
As the result, Mandriva now can become a “standard” version of Operating System for governmental sectors in Russia.
Personally, I’ve never used it and can’t compare its functionality with other OS’es, but the worst nightmares of ROS didn’t appear to be true, like:
Will Mandriva be an only version of Linux distro used in government sector or not - that’s the question, but a good thing is that Linux is acknowledged as OS alternatives on government levels.
Measuring the level of Linux integration, a good example is a massive integration of Linux in China - project Red Flag Linux. Hopefully, this first step in Russia will make Open Source systems more popular then now.
New Anti-Spam plugin for Wordpress
July 12th, 2007