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Ch..Ch..Ch..Changes

There have been a lot of changes lately, many not good at all, some good and bad. The most recent one being that I will be parting ways with my employer end of June. I would have never thought I would stay there for 20 years and I most likely

OpenSAGA

As you may have noticed, I often have very long phases where I don’t really blog about anything tech. This is most often caused by me not really having to write anything about that is not too connected to my day job. While the technical contents of this blog

Installing Ubuntu Karmic Koala

I have been looking forward to Thursday’s release of Ubuntu 9.10, code name Karmic Koala, for some time now. CouchDB integrated into the desktop — sweet! The actual install overall went really smooth. Installer got streamlined a bit more and now carries over the initial language selection to defaults

Dinge von meiner Festplatte: Afra Idofabe

More than two years ago, for some reason I don’t really recall, there were free .be domains to be had. I think it was some kind of marketing for — a new hosting service? — can’t remember. So we toyed around with funny domain names idea. Registering obiwankeno.be was

Wahl-o-mat 2009

Habe gerade mit gekriegt, dass es den neuen Wahl-o-mat für die kommende Bundestagswahl gibt und diesen auch sofort ausprobiert. Das Ergebnis ist wenig überraschend für mich: Just found out that the new Wahl-o-mat for the upcoming federal elections in Germany. The Wahl-o-mat asks you a couple of questions and tells

My media hub

I’ve been thinking about the idea of a small, low-power media pc for the living room for quite some time now. when I saw the eee box, I knew that I would like to try to build a system based on it. My plans are now entering the final

Demo Video Archive

Back in the day when I was involved in the demo scene, I was a coder for Haujobb and did some demos / intros for the Amiga1200. Demos are realtime rendered multimedia art. Today most demos are coded in C or even C with some scripting engine, but back in the