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Pun intended

July 11th, 2011 No comments

Recently in a gnome-terminal somewhere 14:23h in Germany:

killall evolution

Life can be a bitch ;)

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world domination in progress . . .

July 4th, 2011 1 comment

. . . still working on it one step at a time:

Kudos to Bert :-)

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Manifesto For Programming

June 24th, 2011 No comments

http://programming-motherfucker.com/

Not much more to add to this I’d say ;) Other than that this site also features a good python programming book (for absolute beginners like in “i dont know how to create a directory”-beginners).

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WinXP Epic Fail or how a penguin made my day

June 12th, 2011 No comments

Well, all work and no fun make Jack a dull boy. That’s why at my PC at home, there’s a Windows XP installed besides my usual Linux installation. With it I do the in my opinion only thing Windows is better in than Linux, gaming. One can have other opinions, but for now that’s not the point.

In my experience a Windows system needs just a little bit of time to get slower and slower and start behaving crazy which leads to getting unusable and to a reinstallation. I had to say I was a little bit proud of this special installation, because I had no real difficulties within the last 6 month. Maybe it is because I just installed a Firewall, a Software to detect viruses and the single game I usually play … or it just waited until I was unsuspecting. But today it greets me with a nice black screen and the following white letters on it:

Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:

<Windows-root>system32\hal.dll.
Please re-install a copy of the above file.

Ok I do not exactly know what this file does (Managing Hardware access if I have to guess), but I’m sure I never touched her, seriously!

After th obligatory reboot a little bit of panic, anger and sadness followed. In the next second I started searching the web for a solution, or to get a copy of this hal.dll file. I read a bit in crappy forums and decided to find a file download with the dull feeling in my mind, that it can’t be a good idea to get a system-essential file from a source I don’t trust. In this moment a little penguin in my mind whispered “wine”… First I was confused, I more like beer but then I understand – WINE!

Excited typing began, for the hunt of hal.dll in my wine source directory. I smiled when I found it at the expected position. “Too easy to work!”, I thought… Next I mounted my NTFS partition and copied the file to where it whould be if my stupid Win*** didn’t lost it. Unmount, Reboot and crosses fingers followed. And what should I say? SUCCESS!

At the end I need to say, it is a nice job for (not) an emulator to fix the stuff it (not) emulates! ;)

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package of the day

May 30th, 2011 No comments

it has probably bin there from the beginning – i just didn’t know it was there. There’s a nifty little tool, simply called “at”, that can be used to schedule jobs for later execution. So instead of man-paging-together a long command line using shutdown to reboot my machine somewhen late at night i now do:

at 13:37
reboot
[ctrl]+[d]

The job is scheduled for the next point in time possible (that may be the next day if the time specified is already past). Each job gets assigned a number that can be used to delete it with “atrm” and one can list all jobs pending with “atq”.

. . . simplicity at work . . .

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Cluster with Apple TV Boxes

March 25th, 2011 No comments

Yesterday I talked to a colleague from Munich, and he told me about one of his research projects http://appletvcluster.com/

This could be interesting for everyone, who wants a cheap/small cluster to play with, especially our LCTP group.

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CLT2011

March 19th, 2011 No comments

[12:15]

Sitze im 2. Vortrag. Showfloor sah heute sehr gefüllt aus.

Erster Vortrag von Mario Haustein zur WLAN Entfernungsmessung war sehr spannend und wissenschaftlich.

Zweiter Vortrag von Andreas Krennmair ist vom Thema (STFL Text GUIs) her spannend allerdings etwas offesichtlich (das ein GUI Framework verschiedene Widgets/Formulare besitzt sollte selbstverständlich sein). Vielleicht wird er in der nächsten halben Stunde noch etwas spannender.

[14:30]

CMake Vortrag war eher langweilig. Was allerdings lustig und (für mich neu) war ist die Windows Installer Funktionalität von CMake. Ist schon erstaunlich das man in einer Live Demo mingw benutzt um unter Linux ein Windows Binary zu Kompilieren und dann wine benutzt um es zu installieren und zu demonstrieren. Sind noch am überlegen ob wir in einen Kernel oder einen Security Vortrag gehen.

Was tun wenn das Internet alle ist

February 18th, 2011 3 comments

Aus gegebenem Anlass der Nachrichten der letzten Tage hier mal ein Link zu wired, in dem Alternativen zum Internet als Kommunikationsmittel aufgezeigt werden. Die Ideen reichen vom CB-Funk bis hin zu Rauchzeichen. Auch die Nintendo DS findet witziger Weise Erwähnung. Jeder, der wirklich paranoid ist, kann sich ja ab Mai einen KA-SAT Vertrag holen. So lange keiner den Sateliten aus dem Orbit schiesst hat man damit eine Internet-Kill-Switch-Proof Leitung zu Twitter und QuestionableContent.Net. :

http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Communicate_if_Your_Government_Shuts_Off_Your_Internet

Soweit ich weiss kommen ja die OLPC_XO-1 (One Laptop Per Child – 100$ Laptops) auch mit nem Adhoc-Mesh Netzwerk. Mal so ganz abgesehen von Revolutionen kann man mit den Techniken ja auch Schulräume in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern versorgen ;)

Willi

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2570 fps in 1080p

February 16th, 2011 1 comment

Beim allseits beliebten Ablenken-Vom-Für-Die-Prüfung-Lernen bin ich über dieses Video gestolpert.

Locked in a Vegas Hotel Room with a Phantom Flex from Tom Guilmette on Vimeo.

Hier der ursprüngliche Blogpost

Achja und für alle die die jetzt unbedingt so einen Camcoder wollen: Phantom Flex

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Stack Overflow, Server Fault und Co

February 12th, 2011 No comments

Bin grad über nen Blogeintrag auf servervault gestoßen der die Hard/Software der Seiten(Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User …) beschreibt – ich find es immer wieder interessant zu sehen dass die “großen” Seiten auch alle nur mit Wasser kochen:

http://blog.serverfault.com/post/stack-exchanges-architecture-in-bullet-points/

Willi

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