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… or “Monkey Island 1 in 3 minutes”. German only: Monkey Island Flash Film.
Absolutely amazing.

Posted on June 29th, 2007 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

This made me smile this evening… there are two nice easter eggs in the gnome desktop manager.
1) “Run Applications” (alt-F2), enter “gegls from outer space” to get a Space Invaders game.
2) “Run Applications” (alt-F2), enter “free the fish” to get wanda, the fish, swimming around your desktop.
(Source, thx Digg)

Posted on June 27th, 2007 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

guruz reminded me that it might be a good idea to publish some university stuff to the web. After all, it might prove useful to somebody.
My better papers and presentation slides are on my wiki: OpenContent.

Posted on June 27th, 2007 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

It gets better and better… Tarantino is planning to do “Kill Bill Vol. 3” and “Vol. 4“.
Source (sorry, German): kino.de
(Thx Björn)

Posted on June 26th, 2007 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

The BBC has it: New Indiana Jones image released
I’ve always been a huge fan of the series. It’s nice to see they are finally shooting a new part.

Posted on June 22nd, 2007 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

Here’s a nice suggestion from my friend guruz: To get more time out of your cell phone battery, disable the 3G connection, leaving only the GSM connection open.
This has already made some difference for me, I’ll do some statistics starting tomorrow.
Here’s how to do it on a Sony Ericsson K800i:

Update:
I have started using the phone [...]

Posted on June 19th, 2007 under Uncategorized. Comments: 3

This evening I had a discussion with my mother concerning the path of my life after university.
I always wanted to travel abroad, to Australia or lately Canada, for a longer time. But I was always too lazy to get all of it organized for studying for some time in a foreign country. The last plans [...]

Posted on June 18th, 2007 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

There’s been some talk on Planet Ubuntu about the most used commands.
The command to find those is
history | awk ‘{print $2}’ | awk ‘BEGIN {FS=”|”} {print $1}’|sort|uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr
Here’s my list. Workstation:
86 sudo
43 ls
38 ps
38 cd
33 start_default
26 less
21 kill
18 evolution
16 wget
16 darkwing
Server:
168 sudo
89 ls
80 cd
38 /usr/bin/snmpget
28 less
26 [...]

Posted on June 15th, 2007 under Uncategorized. Comments: 1