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Nobody likes to fix the mistakes another person has made due to incompetence, laziness or simply by accident. But when you yourself are that person...
View full detailsThis year's line-up of the Hacken Open Air is probably the best one ever: The headliners sudo's Priest and Gnutallica will set the Black Hat Stage ...
View full detailsDid you know that you can make a lot of money with compression? And we’re not talking about the inventors of WinRAR (who are most likely still wait...
View full detailsWe can all agree that it can be pretty hard keeping up with all the latest social customs. One minute you shake a person's hand when you meet them,...
View full detailsDeath, War, Pestilence and Hunger - one does not need to be familiar with the works of Albrecht Dürer to recognize this unholy quartet: The Four Ho...
View full detailsIf one were to believe the genre legends Run DMC, hip-hop really does have one thing in common with informatics: It's tricky! While the trio of Run...
View full details"Is your computer running low on disk space? Are old holiday pictures and text documents clogging your hard drive? Then simply put everything into ...
View full detailsThe good ol'’ floppy disk!How we loved you when you were our go-to portable, long-term memory solution. We shared so many happy years…!Not tha...
View full detailsAnyone who has ever worked in IT support will know what the following situation is like: "Can you help me? My computer crashed and I can't get to a...
View full detailsThere are a few unwritten rules everybody in IT should always follow. And trust us, if you decide to ignore these rules, you definitely won't want ...
View full detailsMany people see administrators as a kind of Matrix god. They sit in front of computers, typing away like mad in completely unspectacular looking te...
View full detailsImagine arriving at the office, sitting down at your desk in order to do all the important bug fixes , whilst sipping your coffee... when all of t...
View full detailsPenguins are cool, pretty goofy and probably the only birds in the world who forgot to be birds. No other animal looks funnier waddling in the snow...
View full detailsThis year's line-up of the Hacken Open Air is probably the best one ever: The headliners sudo's Priest and Gnutallica will set the Black Hat Stage ...
View full detailsEin Sysadmin schläft nicht
Anyone who's ever developed a program knows that just because it works on one person's computer, doesn't means it works on another! Given the almos...
View full detailsComments in the code are grossly overrated. Everything is already there! If you have a plan of the matter, you don't need any extra explanations ;)
Home is still the best place to be. Who likes to sit at other people's computers where nothing is set up the way it should be ;)
Look again!Even on t-shirts, the number of bugs increases by the day. All getDigital t-shirts are of course way past the beta phase ;)
At times, we reach the point where our brain just refuses to function properly and even the simplest tasks are impossible to complete. Most program...
View full details"Too many cooks spoil the broth!" - a principle that not only applies in the kitchen but also the world of IT. When it comes to identifying former ...
View full detailsImagine that you’ve just created a model that allows different technical systems to communicate with each other and that features different layers ...
View full detailsWhat's the most popular answer to calls at the IT support hotline? Of course the sentence: "Have you tried turning it off and on again?&q...
View full detailsIt is surprisingly easy to hack into other computer systems, often a simple phone call does the trick: "Hello, I am your system administrator. I ne...
View full detailsSomething you may not know is that computer scientists have to deal with all sorts of trees. Quite often, the most common being the so-called binar...
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"You are dumb" in binary ASCII-code.The right answer to all DAU questions (including the one on what's written on your T-shirt): You are dumb! ;-)
At least in theory, we nerds should not have problems with curfews, right? After all, we usually spend the majority of our time at home in front of...
View full detailsThis year's line-up of the Hacken Open Air is probably the best one ever: The headliners sudo's Priest and Gnutallica will set the Black Hat Stage ...
View full detailsWho knew that two small words could make a seasoned programmer sweat and shiver in fear? Simply utter "syntax error" to reduce anyone who works in ...
View full detailsSo, your computer centre urgently needs better security? Are you perfectly qualified for the job? Then don't hesitate: Become a member of the ...
View full detailsIsn't it a good feeling to have power over many computers and users? Of course, backups don't help against a real admin, but users only realize tha...
View full detailsTrue story."Look, Mum, with the new router you don't need cables anymore! Now you can use WLAN in the whole house"."So can I wr...
View full detailsAt some point, there has to be an end to the stupid "Connection reset by peer"
Ahh, nothing beats a well-organized home, right? Everything exactly where it belongs, all the books organized by the astronomical sign of the autho...
View full detailsLet's keep our computers clean and ban Unicode! Abominations like Unicode are destroying our good nerd-values and when you get right down to it, AS...
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