Chris’ Miscellanea

Our junta of incompetent politicians have passed the law that will now introduce censorship in Germany. Ignorant assholes.

Just a quick note about the harm that you can suffer, should you try to install the “dmraid” package in your linux distribution: It’s EVIL! ...

There’s a post over at slashdot about the Twitpocalypse … What it’s supposed to mean is that twitter, this stream of useless short-messages ...

I put some of my electronics garbage to good use, this pretty instrument was salvaged from the dumpster a long time ago. It displays Neper ...

It might not be one with the most highbrow lyrics, but The Pirate Bay now has an anthem! YouTube Video , PirateBay News , mp3 torrent .

I got myself a new mascot. Somehow reminds me of the fabulous Creatures In My Head . Previously.

Ok, so there hasn't been much activity in this blog since... ages. I left the physicist's natural habitat (university) to work in in...

My trusty old Polo had its kmversary ...

To download a ISO image for Windows XP (as a member of a university, I joined the Microsoft Developers Network Academic Alliance programme)...

Finally my nice GPS disciplined clock arrived.

This is what will become my new home-office... as soon as both mould and hole are removed from the wall :-(

I ordered a GPS antenna, checked that the list of "compatible" GPS receivers include +5V types, asked them in a Email about it, t...

Office temperature has reached 28 degrees celsius (upper line).

When I was about 10 years old, we loved to watch this . Yesterday in the evening, I found out that someone analyzed almost all episodes , wh...

I don't own something like a Kill-A-Watt but was interested in the power-consumption of several computers, so I had to improvise. Upp...

I repaired my second Competition Pro (german article) joystick from the old Amiga days. It works remarkably well with the linux db9-driv...