My adventures from Clausthal(Part 1-departure)

As some of you may or may not have noticed I am a college student.So last year I applied for the erasmus international student exchange programme.I decided to go to Clausthal-Zellerfeld in Germany because I already knew some German.It promised to be the adventure of my lifetime.

I was there for about 4 months from late march until early august.Basically one semester.I also had to meet certain requirements to fulfill my exchange programme.Study requitrements of course.

I had a farewell party with my friends from Croatia...

And it really was  the adventure of my lifetime.
It all began with a train ride from Zagreb up to Clausthal.

The next 2 pictures Are from the Zagreb central train station,Just before I left at 6:00 in the morning:

At that time it was still chilly in Zagreb :).And so I departed.

A story of valkyrie crusade

This is a short story about me playing a mobile RPG videogame.

This is not a recruitment drive...Just the story of how I played this game so far and the story of my now former alliance.My profile ID is 5hy15.The name of my alliance is 'Mad scientists'...A reference to Steins; gate.

I started playing last year on the 24th december.As my friends were playing this game a lot and I just got a Samsung galaxy S3(My first gen Xperia X8 was not able to run this game even with a custom rom).I stayed solo until like level 20-30,and I joined some random alliance.But I got kicked out in a week for no reason.Out of pure rage,instead of joining my friends alliance I decided to create my own alliance.And that is how the mad scientists were created.

When I was level 45-50 in our first(and the last one ever) alliance battle I managed to grind ~2000 emblems.The only other member who grinded with me was Agostina,my future vice leader who was still level 30 or so.Still we fell short for a few emblems to unlock the vice leader position.When I was level 60 I got my first HSR Chocodevil.

Around that time the average level of my alliance was still around lv 20.And duel after duel we became stronger and stronger.Then came probably the most heart breaking moment.My vice leader Agostina became inactive.It is a bit heartbreaking when your second in command quits.However at that point I appointed my new vice leader and the current leader of the clan Belldandy.

And he indeed was a good pick,at some point I almost became inactive and he carryed us trough that.Right now they have an average level of ~70,with quite active players.

However at level 100 I have decided that it is my goal to reach lv 120(the mithical level as I call it) and then maybe leave the game,as I was beginning to get bored off the game.And that after lv 120 I will definitely leave my alliance and try solo play(for some reason).At level 110 I gave leadership to Belldandy.

And he intorduced some really strong players into the alliance,several of them being over lv 80.That was the strongest point of the alliance so far.However after that we kind of hit a rough spot as we picked the wrong tactics for allaince duels and we lost some members.However I am sure the alliance can bounce back.

Now I have HUR OA(buffed to 25000 atk),HUR Kiyohime,UR Lugh and my all time favorite HSR Amaterasu(the only 2d character I ever called my waifu :P).Since I have reached level 120 now I have left my alliance today as promised.I can't wait to get all those alliance requests which I am going to turn down for at least 3 weeks.I want to try some solo playing int his game.What will I do after that?Who knows,all my cards are open right now...maybe quit the game,maybe create another alliance,maybe join another alliance or maybe rejoin the Mad scientists.I just want to see if the game can still be new for myself.

Pandakon 2014

https://pandakon.wordpress.com/category/pandakon-2014/

Hey everyone,remember last years Pandakon?
Well Pandakon is an anime conference in Croatia which had its first go last year and it was an instant success.

This year we will have it again,and it will be even bigger.Instead of last years one day,this year it will last 2 days!

Yeah,thats right you heard me right,it's 2 days(two days).

It will be held on the 21.06.2014 and 22.06.2014.
It will be held in the same place as last year,Zagreb,Klub Močvara.On the 21-th it will start at 13:00.And on the 22-th it will start at 14:00.

There will be pop collage.A go workshop.Anime quizzes,projections.A workshop about the lolita culture.A playstation tournament,karaoke,dj party.Also boardgames,a soccer tournament,let's plays,a workshop about Japan,Origami,a fashion review and especially lots of cosplay,calligraphy and MANY MANY more things.

Too bad I am not able to go.But I hope you will because if it is going to be like last year then it is going to be awesome.

How I would change the Unity interface.

Basically I would just want to give out some ideas on how to improve Ubuntu's Unity interface.

Three words :Optimization,Customization and interchangeability.

Let us start with a simple and short one: Optimization.
Users want to run their applications without worrying about system performance.Users also want rapid logon times.I think Canonical should use their development resources to make unity rapid fast.And they should not stop until they reach the speeds of lightweight desktop environments.Unity as it is now is beautiful enough so they don't have to worry about that.

Customization :
Unity lacks a lot of customization options.Users should be able to move the launcher around the screen.What if I want the launcher to be on the right side of the screen?Or the bottom?Or the upper part of the screen?One other thing that the users should be able too is to change the color of the top bar and the launcher.One other thing I would really want to see is the option to remove the top bar completely.Right now that bar is nothing but a remnant of the gnome days.I would put all the functionality of that bar(the mail and social buttons,time and date,shutdown options and other menus) inside a new dock applet.The reason why the top bar bothers me and many people is that nowadays we have widescreens.And on widescreens there is not enough vertical space for horizontal bars and menus(which in themselves are remnants of the times before widescreens became common).Or at least an ability to move the top bar to the side.

Interchangeability:
Canonical should make unity more friendly and accessible to other distributions.If they did that they would get a lot of new developers for Unity from other distributions.If they just keep their own maintainer at the top of the Unity project they would still have more than enough control over the project and it could slightly improve the relations of Canonical and the rest of the Linux community.

OS market share's:Linux is winning...

...and it is not on a drug called Charlie Sheen.
In this post I will compare some market share results of Operating systems.The results will be more surprising than you thought.Also I will actually try to research the data in here,so you can take it half seriously.

Desktop
So let's first start with desktop market shares.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#Desktop_and_laptop_computers
So basically the traditional stats:Windows 90%,Mac OS on 8% and Linux on 2%.Nothing surprising here.
Windows is the definitive winner here.

Server
Some of you will say that servers are unimportant but,they will be a bit important for the conclusion.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/201211/index.html
On this Link Apache=Linux.Apache has 69% while Windows has 15%.The Winner is clear here.

Supercomputers
These are quite important for the potential scientists among us.Otherwise their numbers are not very important.
http://www.top500.org/statistics/overtime/
Linux in the top500 supercomputers dominates more than 82% of market share.And note,There Linux is even split into multiple categories.Otherwise there is Unix with 2%,Microsoft with 0.4% and BSD with 0.2%.Microsoft has troubles there with BSD.

Embedded devices
Those are everywhere around us.
http://seminar2.techonline.com/~additionalresources/esd_apr2012/ubme_embeddedmarket2012_full.pdf
Linux there has 30% While Windows has 14%.This market is very fragmented so those are actually the 2 best scores.

Well this is all fine and nice but Desktop is by far the most important one out of those.So you might get the wrong impression that Windows is winning.Prepare to be surprised.

Android is Linux.

Basically yes,Android has the Linux kernel and that alone is enough to make it a Linux distribution.
What is actually a Linux system?What is Linux?
Linux is only a operating system kernel.The rest of every Linux distribution is something else which is not in actuality Linux,but commonly they are called 'a Linux system' as a whole because the Linux kernel is the central part of every 'Linux distribution'.The rest of the average Linux system is called 'GNU tools',so we come to the full official name of Linux systems:"GNU/Linux".
Some of you might say google does not give it's code backIt does.It is even legally boud to do so because of the GPL license.Also take a look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#Linux_kernel
As you can see there is constant code exchange between Google and Linux developers.Also some Google engineers call it a Linux distro.

Also some of you may say:"But Android is a different platform,you can't run native GNU/Linux apps on Android or vice versa.Android and GNU/Linux are different platforms."Yes,no and it does not matter.
It does not matter because you can't run Ubuntu Linux apps on Red hat Linux and vice versa.Yet still almost all of us will agree both of them are Linux distro's.Some will say:"But Android does not have GNU tools!"It does not need to,by definition of what a Linux distro is all it needs to have is the Linux kernle,nothing else.
Also yes you can't run native Linux apps on vanilla Android but...
There is a not so hard workaround which will enable you to run native Linux apps on Android,hell you will even be able to directly install from Debian repositories(but i can't find the site where I found that info):
http://geeknizer.com/install-run-linux-applications-on-android/http://geeknizer.com/install-run-linux-applications-on-android/

So maybe even if we look at the matter in the context of platforms,maybe Android is not part of the GNU/Linux platform it almost certainly is a Android/Linux platform.

Also here is even more:
http://www.androidcentral.com/ask-ac-android-linux

Smartphones and Tablets:

Lately the smartphone and tablet markets have become just as important as the desktop/laptop market.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system#Market_share

Just look at that.Compared to Android even iOS is a far second.Windows phone is even a far third there.

http://tabtimes.com/resources/the-state-of-the-tablet-market

iOS(51%) is still the first there with Android(40%) being a not so far second.However Android has almost double the shipment rate of iOS meaning it could take over that market eventually.And Microsoft is nowhere near those 2.

And here is one last source for you to read:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-windows-microsoft-android-ios,20220.html

The conclusion:

Linux  has a bigger market share almost everywhere except on Desktop.

ooh,pheew...This article was in the making for a long time because I kept delaying it XD...