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the "secret" muse and the admiral

2009-09-08T10:24:00.007+02:00

last thursday i managed to get my hands on 2 tickets for the "secret" (aka shortly announced and only 1000 people or so) live show of muse. yesterday my gf and i went to berlin to the admiralspalast. doors opened around 19:30, show started at 21:00.some of the crazy fans missed a lot of the concert because all they did was starring at their cameras and mobile phones but if they wouldnt ... who

quote of the day

2009-08-01T11:23:00.002+02:00

Hey, you know what sucks? vaccuums Hey, you know what sucks in a metaphorical sense? black holes Hey, you know what just isn't cool? lava?bash quote 99835

surprising art in july

2009-07-29T23:05:00.004+02:00

after some pretty intense weeks @ work (thanx to http://victory-eu.org), i am now chilling down towards vacation ... by going to the cinema again (funny "hangover" .. and no, thats not what i want to point out with this post), watching dvds and reading books.when fiddling through the mass of dvds available at the 24h-video-rental downstairs, a pretty fucked up jcvd looked back at me from one of

alock rXY .. darn, these mercurial commits :)

2009-06-19T21:54:00.002+02:00

since the day google announced its support for mercurial on googlecode.com i was looking forward to convert the alock-repository from svn to mercurial. well, actually i looked forward to it even longer.as today the alock-repository is controlled by mercurial. may the source be with you.hg clone https://alock.googlecode.com/hg/ alock have fun!

airport cli tool

2009-05-16T12:34:00.001+02:00

just as a quick reminder to myself: % /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport -Irox :)

alock r94

2009-05-03T14:43:00.004+02:00

one month ago i released r90, mainly because i used the xf86misc-extension to disable some way to bypass alock ("AllowDeactivateGrabs" and friends). but in current xorg-servers these bypassing mechanisms and the xf86misc-extension is gone completly ... narfso, here it is: revision 94 of alock.have fun and thanx to the reporters of the problem.

graffity

2009-03-20T15:00:00.001+01:00

http://www.reclaimyourcity.neti should put my photos to that site as well .. mhhh.

alock r90

2009-02-25T08:54:00.003+01:00

i did some bugfixes for the r90, the most important one was to handle "AllowDeactivateGrabs" and "AllowClosedownGrabs" if set in xorg.conf. these options basically allow to bypass any program which grabs the keyboard by just pressing ctrl+alt+divide. not so nice when you wanted to lock the session :) http://alock.googlecode.com/files/alock-svn-90.tar.bz2sha1 should be

alock r85

2008-10-17T23:12:00.004+02:00

a new revision of alock is out: r85. (!beware, the eighties are back!) after some discussions with ciaranm i started to work finally on some kind of visual feedback in alock. now it's time for the *masses* to try it, so get your own copy over at: http://alock.googlecode.com/files/alock-svn-85.tar.bz2the sha1sum should be 37e1cb1ec6acb8cc3a325fcb13054fddded59d50.

the too(i)let

2008-10-17T22:58:00.000+02:00

one of the most remarkable situations i can remember of that little trip was the stop at a pub in bremen. when you are in bremen you would suspect to get some beer (bremen is the home of 'becks'). so my old room mate lead the way downtown and then into a nice pub. after 2 or 3 or .. more beer i need to go to the toilet. i was standing there, lost in my thoughts, drunk and doing what i am supposed

fast forward

2008-10-17T22:56:00.002+02:00

man, am i lazy or what? dunno what happened but i didnt post any stuff anymore. interestingly one can observe such behavior at a lot of blogs. after a while the folks come back, talk some more and ... leave again :)around september i traveled around germany to visit lots of old friends which spread over the country. we started in mageburg, headed north to rostock, went over to hamburg (where the

quote of the day

2008-03-14T06:51:00.005+01:00

it's a trusm that capitalists all believe in free markets until they have to live in one.taken out of in the search of stupidity". and put into context with these stories i was about to smirk a bit:nokia moves factory out of germany towards romania ... germany's government now is "surprised" by the fact that "globalization" means "global", not only "global for germany".an old papermill, ran over

space dapp

2008-03-09T13:46:00.002+01:00

woohoooo, the uber application ever created .. a new relase: http://darkshed.net/files/c_cpp/bits/space_dapp.cchangelog: it accepts width and height now :)(background: i just clean up my $HOME at the moment ...)

nine inches

2008-03-03T07:03:00.004+01:00

trent and his crew did some kind of "strange" marketing in the last weeks. he blogged nothing more than one sentence, mostly just some words like "you ll get yours" .. "soon you will see" ... "tick tock" .well, today is crunch time: new album (double album to be precise) ... ghost I - IV.its totally instrumental, i am currently listening to the flash stream ... much fun.nice price as well, pretty

those moments

2008-02-29T05:37:00.015+01:00

i very much enjoyed work yesterday. my colleague and i improved the runtime of a tool used mostly in-house by a factor of 100. fun. much fun. it now runs so fast the other guys will think it doesn't work.i have read a book or two about optimizations and it is really interesting how much of applies to the real world. main conclusion (it is so obvious it really hurts)never think about optimization

why to use a distributed vcs

2008-02-17T14:24:00.010+01:00

almost a year ago i got my hands onto mercurial, a "new" bastard from the new and "hyped" distributed version control systems (vcs). i played around with it for a while and considered it pretty practical for my own needs, mostly for my own home brew software and some of my config files. until then i used mostly svn ... and so did fluxbox.if you are working alone on some stuff, the distributed

user interface babblings

2008-02-16T17:34:00.005+01:00

a couple of weeks back i tried out "enso", a software made by aza raskin and his folks at humanized.com". its a small tool which allows to handle several common tasks on windows via the keyboard (and the keyboard only). its in a way the same that "we" over at #fluxbox advise people to better work on their keybindings for fluxbox instead of wasting their time on the menu or on fancy icons on the

saul williams numbers

2008-01-14T08:53:00.000+01:00

trent released the numbers of the experiment some days ago and expressed his view on them (trent doesnt support permalinks for his posts atm so i ll just give you the numbers directly):Saul's previous record was released in 2004 and has sold 33,897 copies.As of 1/2/08,154,449 people chose to download Saul's new record.28,322 of those people chose to pay $5 for it, meaning:18.3% chose to pay.Of

picasa2.7beta on your ubuntu

2008-01-07T07:45:00.000+01:00

the big g threw out a new version of picasa for linux a while ago. they prepared even a debian/ubuntu repository for it, nice idea since it makes installation and keeping the stuff from them up-to-date very smooth and easy.on the other hand they could have made the install instructions for really newbies on ubuntu much easier. /* and from my experience the usage of xterm / konsole beats adept or

nin remixes

2007-11-28T08:09:00.000+01:00

trent announced today that remix.nin.com opens its gate. now in beta mode, but more to come :)so, if you like listen to different versions of your favourite songs, visit that site.

tv sux

2007-11-23T16:12:00.000+01:00

only one season of sopranos left, all watched via dvd. no commercials, not stupid shows and brainwash, just plain entertainment. at our new apartment we don't have any tv, neither cable nor satellite. none. perfect.as addicted netjunkies we get the _information_ from the net anyway. entertainment as well. and infotainment is coming along: http://www.mi145.com/

what a big f*cking middle finger for the content mafia

2007-11-12T21:12:00.000+01:00

today another great day for music lovers: saul williams released his latest .. lets call it *opus*: niggy tardust with a little help of his friends trent and alan. the albums is downloadable for 5 bucks, which means dollar which means its even cheaper for us europeans :). for 5 bucks you ll get either mp3 in various bitrates or f*cking insane flac. insane. and very much what music lovers like to

pusciferness .. today

2007-10-26T15:16:00.000+02:00

today mjk's solo album debuts: v is for vagina. nice work. (you can listen to the flash-stream on his site)

travelling madness

2007-10-20T14:57:00.000+02:00

on monday i travelled a bit.View Larger Mapstarted at 0640, got into the bed at 0130. fun :)anyway, was kind of a nice trip with one of my bosses. the meeting was as always in a dark room, beamer and talk. our hosts at idg invited us into a small and nice restaurant: la taverna di fra fiusch". excellent food , amazing view from the hill down to the lighted city :)

fluxbox 1.0

2007-10-09T10:14:00.000+02:00

he did it ... finally. henrik released the 1.0 of fluxbox, the windowmanager of my choice :) so, the baby is out of the door, the team will switch over to mark's branch and extend fluxbox into that direction. he already has some "experimental" stuff in it, we' ll see how thing work out. the team is also playing around with git to do scm a little bit different...