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Why does everyone use ICQ for file transfer?

Because it is so simple? Because everyone has it? Sorry, but everyone has E-Mail, too. What can I say? I simply hate the ICQ file transfer window with its <1 kb/s

9 January 2008 1 min read
personal

Archlinux

A few days ago I replaced Debian through ArchLinux on my Laptop. This is a big deal, because I use my Linux every day, and because I had (yeah, had) about 20 GB

27 November 2007 1 min read
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University

Finally I left school behind me and can say "Welcome to University" to myself. More specifically, it's the Vienna University of Technology. So, what's going on? It's nice here in Vienna

9 October 2007 1 min read
computer_games

Speedhack 2007: Voting

Today it was the time to rate all of the other Speedhack entries (everyone except my own, that's 43 games!) and vote for the best ones. To my surprise there were a few

23 September 2007 2 min read
computer_games

SpeedHack 2007

I participated in this year's Allegro SpeedHack, and had a great time while doing so. The Allegro SpeedHack is a competition where you are supposed to make a game from scratch in three

20 September 2007 1 min read
computer_games

GP2X ports

So, what have I been doing lately? I ported two excellent games to the GP2X platform. The GP2X is a next-gen handheld, like the Nintendo DS or the PSP. The only difference is

19 August 2007 1 min read
computer_games

SUPER_DUPER_LINE_GAME

Today I stumbled upon what I call a nice little game. Although it looks very crappy and is obviously done by a complete newbie it features a very unique concept. It is by

16 July 2007 1 min read
matura

Matura: It's over

"Matura" is how the school leaving examinations are called in Austria. Got my certification yesterday. After that there was a lot of drinking. Now that I'm feeling better again, I'm very

23 June 2007 1 min read

Jumper!

There is this minigame called Jumper!. I think it has been around for years now in the GameMaker community (which I obviously don't belong to). Anyway, the game is a true Jump'n'Run (only

4 June 2007 1 min read

mysqladmin is getting on my nerves

Backup of my tables didn't work, and instead of a meaningful error message telling me what's wrong, or even steps how to solve the problem, all I got was this: After trying some

26 May 2007 1 min read
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