• How to complain about missing hardware support in non-Redmond OSes

    Don't you just hate these whining idiots? Especially the kind that buys some exotic piece of hardware like a 23 button mouse or a keyboard with 42 'multimedia keys' and then bitches about how sucky Linux/*BSD/whatever is? Well, I know I do. And although I know that these people are...


  • Chaos at the Chaos Communication Congress

    I just found a perfect example of why the best software is rendered useless if it isn't used to its full potential. It's time for the 22nd Chaos Communication Congress (22C3 for short) and the organisation of this years C3 has started a lot earlier than in recent years and...


  • [Kendo] Taking a step forward

    So, after my trainer Mitsuyoshi Aoki-Sensei (called 'Mitsu') has been bugging me for four weeks that I should attend the advanced training sessions I finally gave in and went there for the first time yesterday. I totally underestimated it. So there I was, on the far left of the row...


  • U.T.A. Dragon

    Following up on my problems with traffic accounting tools, I started writing my own. The name? Useful Traffic Accounting Dragon. U.T.A. Dragon for short. Why Dragon? Because a dragon is easily superior to a troll. It uses /proc/net/tcp, tcp6, udp and udp6 to get current network connections, the /proc directories...


  • [Offtopic] Single again

    Okay, so I just left my girlfriend. Just thought people expect me to post that in a blog.