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A little bit of success

May 20th, 2008
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Just passed my driving test:

  • Now I got wheels
  • Now have to drink less.

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Linux Antivirus

January 17th, 2008
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Here is a Virus scanner for you:

!# /bin/bash
echo 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 Antivirus released, just add few lines at the bottom of the code:

eject
play tada.wav

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Effective talks

December 31st, 2007
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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 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 :D

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Web.Outdated arguments

November 2nd, 2007
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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I surf through various popular sources, IT portals, and so forth, around 30% of the posts are just trolling on some outdated topics: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. ?
  • China/Russia is an evil country: 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)

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Europeans, robotics and Cyprus

October 29th, 2007
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Some of you already know that for my senior Bachelor project I decided to do & 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 ?

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Cross-browser apologies from j4vk.com

October 23rd, 2007
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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 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.

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