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Posts Tagged ‘Personal’
Linux Antivirus
17
Jan
Here is a Linux Virus scanner for you:
!# /bin/bash
echo Linux virus scanner
sleep(1)
echo Scanning now...
sleep(10)
echo Still scanning...
sleep(10)
echo Almost done...
sleep(5)
echo Drum roll...
sleep(3)
echo No viruses found!!!
sleep(1)
echo Done
References go to Ubuntuforums
Updates: First add-on for Linux Antivirus released, just add few lines at the bottom of the code:
eject
play tada.wav
Effective talks
31
Dec
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:
- Conversation on C with Leonid. In a week, I receive an assignment on C for Robotics due Christmas vacations
- Conversation on Perl with Alex. In few days, I’m starting to write a tiny crawler I need for my Bachelor project
- 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 
Web.Outdated arguments
02
Nov
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I surf through various popular sources, IT portals, and so forth, around 30% of the posts are just trolling on some outdated topics: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)
Europeans, robotics and Cyprus
29
Oct
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:
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?
Cross-browser apologies from j4vk.com
23
Oct
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.
Minor upgrades on j4vk.com
16
Oct
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.
Evince vs Adobe Reader 8 on Ubuntu
07
Oct
- Problems with pdf rendering after .chm to .pdf convertion
- 80 Mb RAM usage
- Correct font rendering in non-native pdf formats
- Correct pdf output with original .pdf’s.
- 40 Mb RAM usage
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