Brside this the Robot magazine gives a first impression of the Robotics Studio [2] and some first screenshots of the upcomming Simulator [3]. Furthermore the Carnegie Mellon University starts a new programm [4] supported by the Robotics Group from Redmond. Meanwhile, there is also a Channe 9 video of almost one hour [5] available.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/robotics/
[2] http://www.botmag.com/issue3/microsoft_technical_preview_1.shtml
[3] http://www.botmag.com/issue3/microsoft_technical_preview_2.shtml
[4] http://www.cir.ri.cmu.edu/
[5] http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=206574

Today I finished my first fischertechnik [1] article for the Coding4Fun website [2]. I guess it will take some days until the text is read, processed and published. I also think already about a follow up article of some more sophisticated models.

[1] http://www.fischertechnik.de/en/index.aspx
[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/

I am definitely not the biggest fan of soccer. But when the championship is in Germany, I will at least watch of the German team. The Soccer Scoreboard [1] allows you to add your home team to your desktop.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=df6a6e6e-21af-4786-ad1d-a38e8bfda82f&displaylang=en

Sometimes I have to wonder about the world we live in: While thousands went to strike to work less (at the end half an hour a week), I have to write an additional application that has to be approved to work two hours more each week. This does not make a lot sense to me. 

All the badges, collected during the last 48 months are scanned and added to my perosonal memex [1].

• SFB 346 [2] Presentation, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
  
• A.T. Kearney Workshop, Karlsruhe, Germany
  
• CSC Ploenzke Workshop, Karlsruhe, Germany
  
• Informatik 2003 [3], Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  
• NET.Object Days 2003 [4], Erfurt, Germany
  
• TechNet Roadshow, Microsoft Office 2003 & Exchange Server 2003, Frankfurt, Germany
  
• MSR Academic Conference 2003, Dresden, Germany
  
• TechEd 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  
• STC 2004 [5], Essen-Duisburg, Germany
  
• TechNet Roadshow 2004 Windows Server System, Frankfurt, Germany
  
• Wissenschaftssommer 2004 [], Stutgart, Germany
  
• Informatik 2004 [6], Ulm, Germany
  
• Informatics Driving Innovation – Challenges in Research, Munich, Germany
  
• “Less is More” – Simple Computing in an Age of Complexity [7], Cambridge, UK
  
• PDC 2005, Los Angeles, Unuted States
  
• EURON Roadmap Workshop 2005 [8], Karlsruhe, Germany
  
• Visual Studio 2005 Launch, Birmingham, UK
  
• Visual Studio 2005 Launch, London, UK
  
• Visual Studio 2005 Launch, Harrogate, UK
  
• Visual Studio 2005 Launch, Edinburgh, UK
  
• Microsoft Research Security Workshop [9], Hamburg, Germany
  
• Microsoft MVP Open Day, Cambridge, UK
  
• Informatiktage 2006 [10], Bonn, Germany
  
• Microsoft Research, International Symposium on Intelligent Environements [11], Cambridge, UK
  
• CHI2006 [12], Montréal, Canada

[1] http://blog.aheil.de/CategoryView,category,Memex.aspx
[2] http://www.imi.uni-karlsruhe.de/367.php
[3] http://www.informatik2003.de/
[4] http://www.old.netobjectdays.org/node03/index.html
[5] http://www.event-team.com/events/stc2004/
[6] http://www.wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/wss.php4?ID=20
[7] http://research.microsoft.com/ero/iep/LessIsMore.aspx
[8] http://wwwiaim.ira.uka.de/euron/cwiki.php
[9] http://research.microsoft.com/ero/Events/Security/2006/
[10] http://www.informatiktage.de/
[11] http://research.microsoft.com/ero/iep/isie06.aspx
[12] http://www.chi2006.org

SVNService [1] by Magnus Norddahl works great if you want to run subversion [2] as a Win32 service. Just installing the service with svnservice.exe -install -d -r c:\repository. It seems to be confusing that the service is not started and set to manual, but the svn server is running, even after a reboot.

[1] http://dark.clansoft.dk/~mbn/svnservice/
[2] http://subversion.tigris.org/

There are some Microsoft Mac essentials [1] that must be on my Mac’s HDD. Windows Media Player and IntelliPoint at least. I have also found but not tried yet an update for Virtual PC, which maybe can solve the previous installing issue [2].

I especially recommend IntelliPoint if you use any Microsoft Mouse. I became very frustrated by my Wireless Optical Blue Mouse on the Mac. It was slow and stucking; improving the speed within the Mac’s System Preferences did not improve the handling cery well. However, the IntelliPoint software does support the devices very well, and by using the IntelliPoint pointer speed option instead of System Mouse Tracking the performance and reliability of the wireless mouse is improved dramatically.

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It also has some additional information on the mouse, depending on the attached device. After replacing my Optical Wheel Mouse USB with the Wireless Optical Blue Mouse I got this additional tab showing the battery level.

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[1] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/Browse.aspx?displaylang=en&categoryid=5
[2] http://blog.aheil.de/MyFirstMac.aspx

Maria brought the Consolas Font Pack for Visual Studio 2006 [1] to my attention. After installing, the Consolas font is set up as default font in Visual Studio 2005. At least on my Portégé M200 it is very readable.

[1] microsoft.com/downloads

The last impression of the city of Montréal [1] after CHI2006 [2] was one of the very impressive underground shopping centers, before we left te city.

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[1] http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/
[2] http://www.chi2006.org/

Actually, you can never have enough backups, but the original reason for getting Acronis’ TrueImage was to copy an image of my 60GB laptop HDD to a new 100GB HDD. This worked surprisingly well, connecting the new disk, using an external USB case, the tool reboots the system and copies a bootable image of the disk.

Beside this, the tool can perform backups while you work on your system. Very cool and helpfully if you backup to a server, which could take some time. In addition the tool provides a very great feature, which makes accessing files within your backup very comfortable. You can just plug an backup image as a virtual disk to your system and this way you can access the complete backup and access specific files you are looking for.

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It is shown [1], that filtered coffee – not espresso or French-style brews – does not increase the risk of some heart diseases… Shack-o the next coding session can come.

[1] today.reuters.co.uk

If you travel a lot, and if you have a chicken as pet – this solution presented at CHI could be exactly what you where looking for:

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Actually they have done a “user study” with two chicken. Using a red and a blue door, one with food and water, one with food, water, and 10 minutes of the jacket, the chickens prefer the door with the additional 10 minutes Force Feedback jacket. And no, this is not a joke, it is serious research. For those not believing, a video was also shown with a real chicken remotely touched by a user…

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Even during CHI [1], a lot of work is left to do: So I take the chance und finish some stuff in the evening hours in a very special working atmosphere.

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[1] http://www.chi2006.org/

2006 All Stars

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Yesterday evening we arrived in Montréal, Québec for CHI 2006 [1]. Just some impressions from the place. At the bottom you can see which area is covered by the panoramic view.

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[1] http://www.chi2006.org/

I just checked out the Kartoo [1] map using aheil as query. Interesting links and relations are found by this tool. But I do not have any clue how ww.cwea.org is realted to the whole map.

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[1] http://www.kartoo.com/

Actually, I do not have any problem paying for music. Sometimes I just want to listen to a piece of music, I checkout e.g. Musicload. I copied the music files, made a backup of the licenses and reinstalled my machine. So I decided to listen to a particular song:

Because I have freshly installed my box these days, I needed to restore my licenses but I do encounter this message while trying to restoring them:

Let’s see what “Web Help” says:

This is not helpfully at all. OK, let’s check the radio button to tell this to the people over there. An additional text box appears, asking for my experience; I was spending a lot of money on music, 2 o’clock a.m., I want to listen to my music, I am so somewhat angry… But I do not give up so easily. So I tried to restore another backup. Of course I did backup by licenses on a regular basis. And all I get is this:

Also this message does not satisfy me a lot. So I decide to try it a third time:

The very interesting thing: Depending on which backup I try to restore, I get always the very same message but I do never get my licenses back. Let’s go back where I bought the music, downloading the license again, because it looks like this is my very last chance:

But the song is not available anymore… they do only keep it for six months.. That sucks. Only the last three songs are left. And of course they write I should make backups of my licenses… Remark to myself: Do not purchase any music anymore.

[Update]

Actually the DRM policy allows you to restore your licences on four different systems. Lucky day, because I just backed up my licences on another system and tried to restore them. This was th so-called plan. But DRM does not give up so easily and fires this message:

At least some of my licences which I bought and payed for, I own , i.e. they belong to me and I do have the right to hear the song whenever I want (at least I thought so), do work again. But some others still suck…

I just did it: I ordered one of those nifty Apple Mac minis with the new Intel inside. Actually I plan to put a Windows on it. Fortunately, when I bought the Office for Mac last year, the package also included on Windows XP license… btw: I ordered the English Mac OS X. A few weeks ago I spend some time together with some colleagues in a Apple store in Seattle. And yes, the hardware does look great.

For all those developers who prefer Emacs there it is. Emacs shortcuts put of the box supported by the Visual Studio 2005.

“The following shortcut key combinations mimic commands available in Emacs and are used while editing code in the integrated development environment (IDE).“

Link: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165528.aspx

Do you remember the song, while Will Smith [1] standing in the shower in I,Robot [2]? Superstition by Stevie Wonder [3]. That song rocks!

[1] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000226/
[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343818/
[3] http://www.musicload.de/item?trackid=164828

BtK is definitely not the only person playing with food before Halloween… and Maria did the painting for my very first real Halloween Pumpkin!

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And, what a surprise… it’s a pumpkin… how disgusting!

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But one day, a man has to do, what a man has to do. so I was brave.

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Finally, everybody was happy…

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Because I was assked again some minutes ago: Lutz Roeder’s .NET Reflector [1] is one of MUST HAVE tools for .NET programers.

[1] http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/

Last week I have been several times at the fischertechnik factory in Salzstetten, Germany. One time I got a Mercedes C-model Kompressor because all small ones where gone. Usually I am not really impressed by the C-model, as my boss has trouble with his cars for years… But this one, even with the smallest engine… let’s say, the first time I had to break, I kissed almost the front panel… really impressing.

After moving from the Intel boxed cooler to the Zalman [1] CNPS-7000B, I was able to reduce the temperature of my case from 45° to 39°-40° celcius while being idle. For this the CPU cooler runs at full speed. Nervertheless noise caused by the CPU cooler changed significant.

Because I found no information about this: The CNPS-7000 works fine with the ASRock P4S55FX+ board.

Just some days after changing the CPU cooler the VGA fan started to make strange noises, so I decided to move to a Zalman fan, too. This time it is the VF700-CU. A full copper 270g fan, pinned to my AGP-Slot. Using the new VGA fan and the CPU cooler I was able to reduce the temperature to 39° while using silent mode (~5V) for both fans.

The last I used two FAN MATE II on the front side of my case to control both, the CPU and the VGA cooler. Full throttle to both fans lowers the case temperature to 34°. And my harddisk remains the only piece of hardware making a lot of noise.

[1] http://www.zalman.co.kr/

Because Xbox 360 is comming I am back live. XboxFriends.com [1] provides this nice banner generator [2] by Cory Smith [3].

[1] http://www.xboxfriends.com/
[2] http://www.xboxfriends.com/bannergen.aspx
[3] http://addressof.com/blog/archive/2004/04/28/648.aspx

Building my memex, I decided to file all my cinema tickets I collected over the last decade in a digital archive.

How to file those memories? It should be possible to index the datas but also it should be possible to have a look at the ticket. So all (~140) tickets are stored in one huge file. At least it is possible to extend the file when new tickets are available…

[1] http://blog.aheil.de/CategoryView,category,Memex.aspx

IMPS – The Relentless [1], “An epic documentary of the best damn job in the galaxy” is the best fan fiction I have ever seen. Please, I want more!

So here’s the press release, and don’t forget to check out Chapter 1 [2].

Glendale, Calif., May 19, 2005 – Blacksheep Productions today announced the release of Chapter One of “I.M.P.S. – The Relentless”, the much anticipated first installment of an eight chapter Fan Film in production for over six years. Imperial Military Personnel Stories (I.M.P.S.) tells the story of the hardened grunts of the Imperial Urban Army stationed on the Revenge Class Heavy Carrier “Relentless”.

IMPS Teaser Trailer and Chapters available at: http://www.impstherelentless.com/ [3]

After the overwhelming popularity of the fan film, “Troops” (Released 1997), members of Blacksheep Productions began work on a sequel. No longer a specific parody like “Troops”, “IMPS” took on a more serious tone similar to documentaries about Naval Aircraft Carriers, their battle groups, crews and missions.

In addition to some humor, IMPS is packed with homage to a variety of other popular films. IMPS boasts some of the most elaborate production values, sound, original music and best visual effects quality ever seen in a fan film.

“IMPS is a heartfelt tribute to the original Star Wars Universe.” said Eric Hilleary, Executive Producer, “An unbelievable amount of patience is required when you’re asking people to produce more effects shots than were in Episodes 4 though 6 combined – and all in their spare time.”

Production began in April of 1999 on a glacier at the top of Mount Shasta in Siskiyou County, California. Post production continues through 2005. Most of the sets were built on Blacksheep Studios Stage 1, the 400 square-foot garage of the producer’s late 1920’s bungalow in Glendale, California.

“We’ve endured many obstacles, setbacks and sacrifices on the long road to completion.”, said Dave Max, Producer, “Nothing, however, can compare with the satisfaction of completing this massive undertaking and the excitement of the unpredictable events along the way. We’ve learned, grown and changed both personally and professionally in a way that nothing else could match.”

Chapter 1, Introduction & Davenport Gateway, runs approximately 20 minutes. The remaining Chapters, to be released every four to six weeks, run 15 to 20 minutes and take the viewer to various locations from the frozen snow-covered tundra of Norca, where the cold weather corps braves extreme icy temperatures and blinding whiteouts, to the savage desert wasteland of Kadesh, where the Elite Blacksheep Cavalry breaks out the blasters and the sunshades when they’re called into action.

With few exceptions, all of the costumes, props and sets were hand-constructed by the people you see using them. The majority of the film was shot using a Canon XL-1. Most of the visual effects were created using commercially available software. The music and sound were created and produced primarily with Cakewalk Sonar Producer. Time on green and blue screens was generously donated by industry friends and contacts.

[1] http://www.impstherelentless.com/
[2] http://impstherelentless.com/tek9.asp?pg=chapter1
[3] http://www.impstherelentless.com/

I am a .inf, I am informative, but when I am gone I make live very difficult for others…

Thanks to Igor who posted the link to the quiz [1] in his blog [2].

[1] http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/10/extension_quiz.php
[2] http://geekswithblogs.net/imilovanovic/archive/2004/11/08/14582.aspx

With respect to the idea of Vannevar Bush’s Memex [1] and Microsoft Research’s MyLifeBits Project, today I started to digitize all important papers from the last years. The first step was throwing away all nonrelevant stuff. So it is now only half of the amount of paper to scan. I think one of tho gratest challange will be the organisation of the data later on.

So the first steps to build my personal memex are:

• 
  
  scanning all major documents (letters, contracts, validations etc.)
  
  
• 
  
  digitizing the documents
  
  
• 
  
  indexing the content

[1] http://www.cs.unibo.it/~cianca/wwwpages/dd/bush.pdf
[2] http://research.microsoft.com/barc/MediaPresence/MyLifeBits.aspx

An excellent practical example how inversive kinematics [1] works.

[1] http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/05062202.html

(click for more info)

Diego, a friend from Pisa just gave me a link to an article about his R2D2… Looks really awesome. I guess the return of the Jedi or even the Sith is not too far away anymore… I look forward to see it in action. Or even better, maybe I can write some code for it…

May the force be with you!

Link: http://www.repubblica.it/copertine/scienza_e_tecnologia/copertina.htm

The UK MSDN Site provides a alternative to 1 hour MSDN webcasts:

“Don’t have the time to read a 10 – page how-to article or watch a full length webcast? Try an MSDN Nugget, a webcast that takes you step-by-step to discovering new functionality or exploring a hot developer topic, all in 10-15 minutes. View them online now or download for later reference. To view MSDN Nuggets you need Windows Media Player 9 Screen codec support on WMP 7 and above.”

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/events/nuggets.aspx

In meinem Bestreben einen Abschluss zu erlangen, bin ich bereit einiges zu lernen, unter anderem auch Folgendes:

“Drin-Punkte werden möglichst so gewählt, dass sie keine Drauf-Punkte sind.”

Software-Qualitätssicherungs Skript

“Wenn Dich die Muse mal küsst, dann musst Du sie so richtig rannehmen“

Andreas Heil

(draufklicken für die volle Schönheit)

cmd.exe unterstützt ja von Haus aus keine UNC Namen: Das wird einem scherzlich bewusst, sobald man versucht auf einem Netzwerkshare Visual Studio Projekt mit post-build Events zu versehen.

Die Lösung bring dieser Artikel in der Knowlede Base: Unter

HKEY_CURRENT_USER
\Software
\Microsoft
\Command Processor

einfach den Wert DisableUNCCheck REG_DWORD hinzufügen und den Wert auf 0 x 1 (Hex) setzen. Zeigt Wirkung! Ohne Reboot.

Quelle: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/156276/DE/

Wer den Ball so vor’s Tor legt: Reuters schreibt über die noch bestehende Unklarheit des entgleisten Nachtzuges, während die Bahn die Preise für Nachtzüge reduziert…

Brad Abrams lässt in den Coding Guidelines durchblicken, wie Code aussehen sollte…

Quelle: http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/

I need this so often, but every time I forget, how it works (from Visual Studio Help).

Project Folder Not Secure Dialog Box

caspol -m -ag 1.2 -url urlname FullTrust

Da lacht das Herz:

“Mit dem Open-Source-Projekt Mono, das wesentliche Teile von .Net implementiert, können Entwickler jetzt auch unter Linux & Co. von Microsofts Framework profitieren, schreibt iX in seiner aktuellen Ausgabe 3/05. Die von den Redmondern entwickelte Programmier- und Laufzeitumgebung .Net ist sprachunabhängig und nach Ansicht vieler Softwareexperten konzeptionell weiter als Java respektive J2EE. Aber: .Net läuft nur unter Windows.

Mit dem 2003 übernommenen Mono-Projekt will Novell eine plattformunabhängige Open-Source-Implementierung von .Net schaffen und damit die Möglichkeit eröffnen, unter Linux die Programmierung zu vereinheitlichen. Hinzu kommt, dass Mono auch für Windows-Umgebungen verfügbar ist, man also Programme für beide “Welten” schreiben kann. Schon heute umfasst Mono viele Teile der .Net-Komponenten und ermöglicht die Portierung zahlreicher Anwendungen. Deshalb sollte man die Plattform weder als Spielzeug noch als Technologiestudie sehen, so das Fazit der ausführlichen Produktevaluation der iX-Redaktion.”

Quelle: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/56196

Der Postbote hat geklingelt (nur einmal heute) und bringt mir das langersehnte Paket aus Singapur.

Gleich nmal aufgemacht ung geschaut, und tatsächlich es sind meine neuen kleinen Freunde! 4 An der Zahl und sofort mache ich mich mal daran den ersten assemblieren… 100% Geek-Stuff!

(fight!)

(eignet sich auch zum Monitor bewachen)

Quelle: www.stikfas.com

Endless Loop: n., see Loop, Endless.
Loop, Endless: n., see Endless Loop.

Random Shack Data Processing Dictionary

findet die Community DevCon in Franfurt statt:

“Am 17. und 18.02. findet die diesjhrige Community DevCon 2005 statt! Wie im letzten Jahr hat das Event zum Ziel, alle Aktiven aus der Microsoft Developer Community an einem Tag zum intensiven Dialog einzuladen.”

Die Post-Conference der BASTA ist zugleich der Pre-Event der DevCon und so wird auch an beiden Tagen etwas zu lesen: Visual Studio Team System dürfte sicherlich interessant sein.

Quelel 1: http://www.event-team.com/events/cdc/
Quelle 2: http://www.basta.net/basta05se_dotnet05/

Gestern abgeholt, soeben eingebaut, der neue Fileserver bietet Platz bis zumr Bodenplatte des Gehäuses. Während der Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition installiert, habe ich das Gehäuse mal abgelichtet… Da 10-15 Platten schon einiges wiegen können ist der Medium-Tower sogar mit Rollen versehen, deren Montage sich allerdings als akrobatisches Meisterwerk für meine doch nicht allzu filigranen Finger erwies…

Der Server steht, kann der Mac mini also zum Arbeiten kommen…

kann ich XBOX auch ohne Fernsehgerät spielen. Da der Verein auch Gebühren verlangt, wenn man das TV-Gerät NUR an eine (oder mehere) Spielekonsolen hängt, bleibt einem ja nichts anderes übrig als sich nach Alternativen umzusehen. Ich sehe nicht ein für öffentlich-rechtliche Sender, die ich nicht anschauen kann (und will) Geld abzudrücken, nur weil ich XBOX spielen will. Der kleine Retter in der Not ist der Screenbox PC Video to VGA Converter. Hier meine durch den Transport von München leicht verbeulte Schachtel des Converters.

Die Ausstattung ist nahezu gigantisch. Neben dem notwendigen Netzteil (und natürlich dem Converter) findet man ein Adapter um die Cinch-Stecker (weiß und rot) der XBOX an den Audio Eingang (2,5 Klinkenstecker) anzuschließen. Das dritte (gelbe) Kabel hat einen eigene Video Eingang. Zusätzlich verfügt das Gerät über einen VGA und einen X-VGA Eingang. Mittels eines kleinen Schalters läst sich am Gerät durch alle Eingägne durchschalten. Anhand der beigelegten Fernbedienung lässt sich aber jeder Eingang direkt anwählen. An den Audio-Ausgang lässt sich jegliche handelsüblichen Kopfhörer oder Lautsprecher anschließen. Die Fernbedienung bringt ausserdem noch einige Einstellungsmöglichkeit bezgl. des Bildes mit und ist gerade mal ein paar Milimeter hoch (Auf dem Bild ist die Fernbedienung mal in Originalgröße abgtebildet).

(für Originalgröße draufklicken)

Das Gerät hat auf Anhieb funktioniert und für Analphabeten sind alle Stecker farblich gekennzeichnet. Das Adapterkabel zum und vom Rechner wird ebenfalls mitgeliefert. Neben dem VGA Anschluss verfügt es ebenfalls noch um ein YCbCr Anschluß.

Meines Wissens ist das Teil leider nicht mehr im Handel erhältlich. Wer Interesse bekundet, kann sich mal melden, vielleicht lässt sich noch das eine oder andere Gerät auftreiben…

Naja, auf jeden Fall wie ein Grund mehr, sich kein Fernsehgerät zu kaufen.

Gerade habe ich ein paar ordentliche DockIcons für Entwickler gefunden. Jetzt fehlen nur noch Icons für den SQL Server und die zugehörigen Tools.

(draufklicken zum Download)

Quelle: http://www.wincustomize.com/Skins.aspx?LibID=29

“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it
harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.”

Bjarne Stroustrup

Heute war es so weit: im Rahmen einer erlesener akademischer Gesellschaft, durften heute 250 Besucher der Keynote Bill Gates zur “Informatics Driving Innovation” der TUM und DFG beiwohnen. Nach einer kurzen Einführung Prof. Broys, betrat Bill Gates den Raum. Nach einer kleinen Einführung stellte sich Bill Gates ca. 50 Minuten lang interessante Fragen aus dem Auditorium zum Thema Innovation und Forschung. Super Fragen und noch bessere Antworten. Prof. Goos habe ich erfreulicherweise auch in der Veranstalltung gesehen…

(Informatics Driving Innovation)

(Der Meister)

(…smiling)

(Prof. Broy und Mr. Gates)

Hausverteidigung mal anders! Gerade habe ich den folgenden Artikel auf dem Gamestar-Blog entdeckt. Nachdem mein Haus bereits mit Sensor-Lichtern und Kameras passiv gesichert wurd, wäre es eine Überlegung wert das Gagdet in zwei- oder dreifacher Ausfertigung an strategisch wichtigen Positionen im Haus zu verteilen. Mit etwas “Modding” verschießt der kleine Freund bestimmt auch Munition mit höherer Stopwirkung! :->

“Gelegentlich schmeisse ich mit Bekannten oder Kollegen zusammen, um eine Sammelbestellung bei Thinkgeeks.com abszusetzen. Da gibt’s allerlei Schweinkram, den man so als echter Entertainment-Nerd braucht um seiner Umwelt oder seinen Kollegen auf den Keks zu gehen. Gerade eben bietet mir Thinkgeeks den praktischen Room Defender an. Diese automatische Kanone reagiert auf Bewegungen und feuert 16 Schaumstoffprojektile bis zu fünf Meter weit in Richtung des Eindringlings. Neben dem automatischen Modus per Bewegungssensor kann der personifizierte Nerd auch über eine Fernbedienung nach Herzenslust quer durch den Raum feuern. Das Ding kostet rund 25 US-Dollar, beim derzeit günstigen Euro-Kurs ist das gar nicht mal so teuer. Aber wie gesagt: Sammelbestellung organisieren, die Versandkosten aus den USA zum alten Kontinent sind pervers.”

Damit sich eine Anschaffung tatsächlich lohnt, müsste es tatsächlich eine Sammelbestellung sein, da die Versandkosten nochmals 100% des Verkaufpreises betragen ( Ab 4 Gfolgsleuten, könnte man sich eine Bestellung mal überelgen. Also, einfach mal melden!

Quelle 1: http://www.gamestar.de/aktuell/blog/post/1/224
Quelle 2: http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/71bc/