Chris’ Miscellanea

Words cannot describe the amount of lint deposited in and onto the keyboards I am forced to use.

On shift again, this will be my cozy little home for the next week.

So, I have this nice monitor, a SUN GDM20D10 which relates to a old Sun workstation that is dog-slow by todays standards and which I therefo...

Ok, you have probably seen this already, but it's just too good to take the chance you'll miss it: Bruce Schneier Facts , which is a...

Now I'm the proud owner of a hand-signed edition of bunnies "Hacking the X-Box" book :-).

During my commute from work I saw that guy with his computer sitting in the train whom I cowardly photographed from where he could not see ...

Because of the hot weather here in germany, the HERA accelerator has problems dissipating all the heat the overdesigned and energy wasting ...

Tinkering, Chatting, Eating.

I ordered myself new toys...

Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats

So I get a phonecall from my friendly T-Mobile user-care-agent, a very friendly saxony-accent woman who is tremendously grateful that I'...

Its really great weather, currently. Unfortunately it's also quite warm in my office. As long as some wind blows its tolerable though.

I just want to use the opportunity to direct the valued readers of this blog to the Wikipedia entry regarding holes . There are always too ...

I was at the berg for the first time in my life... and I had a sausage roll with mustard, not with Kets hup .

Jun 5 21:12:55 entropy racoon: INFO: IPsec-SA established: ESP/Transport 192.168.1.36[0]->192.168.2.33[0] spi=254685122(0xf2e2fc2) 21:...

Where I live, some prehistoric golden-cone has been found few years ago which gave one of the trails it's name: „Goldkegelweg“ (golden...

Just had a look at legacy code that spans several pages in this style:  DO 13 K = 1,N     Z(6) = U(K,I)     U(K,I) = Z(5) * Z(6) - Z(4) ...

Don't ask.