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January 19th, 2009famous quotes from the lndw project
September 29th, 2008During the LNDW sessions we had quite some fun quotes coming up. Here are the ones I remember.
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Lange Nacht der Forschung
September 29th, 2008long time, no update!
Simon and I just finished our project for the “Lange Nacht der Forschung” a.k.a “European Researchers Night”. While it was quite exhausting during the last week (~75 workhours from monday – friday) the results where quite satisfying. Thank you to everybody who contributed!
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boost::thread, condition variables & member initialization order
September 29th, 2008It’s been a while since I used the boost library. The threads library is pretty nice, but there is one major issue concerning member initialization order and thread construction. Read the rest of this entry »
phil on art
October 19th, 2007so, I was at the mensa fest tonight and ended up walking home with a girl from my dorm. [insert missing details here] We ended up having a conversation about my “toilet.cam” picture on the inside of my room. I asked here what her favourite was.
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why does erlang scale so well?
September 29th, 2007When I first heard about Erlang, I read about the article in Wikipedia. It states that Erlang is a “general-purpose concurrent programming language and runtime system”. While most of the phrases in that definition are pretty easily understandable on the first read, the word concurrent got my attention. I won’t go through the reasons of why concurrency is a bullshit-bingo phrase at the moment. Just slap google with multi-core and you’ll know why.
Are we really thinking sequential?
September 28th, 2007I went to this talk today. As it lies within my natural habits of being unable to keep my mouth shut, I had to comment.
Surfin’ OC
August 3rd, 2007Just a quick hello from the oh-so beautiful Orange County, California. I’m here spending some time with my grandparents. Bought a Bruce Jones – long board (9′6″) on Tuesday and am trying to take it out about every day. So I’m getting up early (6:00 am) to catch some good waves.
Last Saturday we went to the Project Revolution Tour Concert in San Bernadino. It was such a blast: Placebo, HIM, Taking Back Sunday, My Chemical Romance, 45.000 people. Something like this And that was way up in front. I should have gone for the more expensive tickets and end up in the moshpit! What an awesome day that was (hot as hell during the day as well tough).
Ok, gotta get to bed, waves are calling! -phil
Waterstorm public beta released …
April 3rd, 2007… a “when it’s done”-job gets finally done.
I am happy to report that our friends at Rarebyte Game Development released the public beta of Waterstorm, their fast paced 2D multiplayer submarine action shooter.
I am even more happy and proud to see that a small, independent game developer managed to create a entertaining game and support all major operating systems from the very beginning. Many big developers and distribution companies don’t care about the small (but growing) segment of Linux-gamers (and the apple users … of course 
) which makes this project an even larger success.
So don’t wait .. join the fun and tell your fiends!
Rarebyte’s release announcement:
The waiting has found its ending: Rarebyte’s newest incarnation, Waterstorm, a fast paced 2D multiplayer shooter, goes beta. Players from around the world can measure up against each other in a sophisticated ranking system and team up as clans.
A massive variety of sub marines and weaponry rock the boat in Waterstorm. Subaqueous battles with jaw-dropping graphics guaranteed and free of charge!
You can dive into the world of Waterstorm using Linux, Mac OS or Windows. So have no fear and register right this second at www.waterstorm-game.com
To learn more about Rarebyte please visit www.rarebyte.com
23c3 – a ping from day 2
December 28th, 2006Hello out there, greetings from 23C3. Its day 2 already and I am still very excited. Interesting stuff all day, computer hacking and party all night.
Anyway I am looking forward to New Years Eve and partiing with friends.
Matthias
sleeping with ghosts …
November 27th, 2006Pardon me. Ghosts? No its only been Philipp with whom I shared a room again. Probably in one of the oldest houses we ever slept in. Would have been spooky without you my friend!
We were invited to “Schloss Mondsee”, a really nice Hotel, for two days. The Institute for Pervasive Computing (JKU) held a two-day workshop with industry partners there.
Thanks again for interesting discussions in this nice ambiente.
Regards Matthias
holidays but no pictures
September 15th, 2006hello all, after some days on the island of cres and then some days in rovinj in croatia, we moved on to trieste and now venice.
the weather is not too good in venice atm. since we are not bathing thats no problem.
sorry no pictures … forgotten the cable of my cam.
have a nice day matthias
artists adapting to the reality
August 30th, 2006I happily noticed that many of my favourite bands and labels offer quite a lot of music online for free. And i am not talking about ugly 30-sec prelistening streams but full length and quality mp3 files.
Sure it would be nice to see some patent-free technology like ogg/vorbis but its a great first step anyway.
Another cool concept was implemented by finetunes.net, who sell high quality music (DRM free ogg or mp3) in a – in my opinion – fair pricing scheme. They feature many german and international independent-labels for several years now.
I think these facts show once again that great musicians (which happen to be non-mainstream most of the time ) don’t seem to fear piracy or current technologies at all. So lets hope that the big companies won’t destroy it all and there is no problem anymore
Some example bands would be The Dresden Dolls, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, ..
CAPSoff
August 21st, 2006I am a very stupid keyboard typer. Every now and then I get angry because I need new batteries for my wireless desktop. Frequently I am annoyed because I CAPS or NUM Lock my input device.
One way out of my keyboard-hell would be buying a Happy Hacking Keyboard or one of those OLED ones. Both to expensive … I don’t get them as presents 
But! Look at http://capsoff.org/ they try to help me with the CAPSLock problem a little bit.
Regards
holidays?
July 6th, 2006It’s done our university commitments are finished for this term.
Yes ok, phil and myself will have to do paperwork for our bachelor papers. And then of course there is still work, werwurm is starting his summerjob on monday. The rest of us will probably just spend more time on our sparetime jobs.
Anyways … wish you all a great summer, hope we don’t loose touch during the summer breaks.