Dresden. Music. Computers and ... Me!

LaTeX Hints

2009-04-22T23:30:00.003+02:00

As promised, here some nice LaTeX hints.1. Fancy Chapter TitlesCheck this out:http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html2. Make your Table of Contents, Footnotes, Refs click able\usepackage[colorlinks,pdfpagelabels,pdfstartview = FitH,bookmarksopen = true,bookmarksnumbered = true,linkcolor = black,plainpages = false,hypertexnames = false,citecolor = black] {hyperref} Options are

Download youtube videos (and whole chanels) from the terminal

2009-04-22T23:16:00.005+02:00

Because I need some video tutorials, which I prefer to watch off-line (in the train for instance), I prog'd a Shell-Script (for linux terminal) to do the work for me.1. y2flv.sh#!/bin/bashecho "::Try to get $1"wget -q -O tmp.tmp "$1"wget -O "`cat tmp.tmp | grep video_id= | grep fullscreen | egrep "title=(.*)" -o | egrep "[^=]*$" -o | egrep "^[^\']*" -o`.flv" http://www.youtube.com/get_video`cat

End of vacation - begin of the 4th semester

2009-03-26T13:54:00.002+01:00

Three weeks of relaxing... Over!During this time, I read some news and found some interesting website which I like to share with you.Descent 1 & 2 under LinuxFor those of you, who played the computer in the middle of the 1990th's, you may know the games Descent and Descent 2. In these games, you fly completly 3-dimensional in outer space mines and shoot at some nasty robots :) I like this game,

Vacation!

2009-02-23T15:20:00.006+01:00

Puhh... Finally, the exam period is over, and I have now some time for different things I delayed :) Such as:Installing Ubuntu on my desktop PCAfter some weeks working with Ubuntu on my Asus eee Netbook PC, finally, I now could not wait to install this fine operation system on my desktop computer as well.Again, my MP3-Player did his job as an installation medium (I really like that!). First,

Chinese - ... the language, not the food!

2009-02-01T23:15:00.004+01:00

Due some reasons I came in contact with the Chinese language recently.As is proper for a ongoing computer scientist, I approach this topic in a logical way:First, some facts:5,000 characters (symbols)1.2 billion native speakersdifferent dialects (Mandarin, Cantonese..)no grammar (reflections)3 tenses (past, now, future) <--- worth a look! :)1 Symbol = complete word or part of a sentencesame

Some interesing articles about programming everyday life

2009-01-24T00:21:00.005+01:00

Real programmers don't use Pascal http://guest.engelschall.com/~sb/realmen/contains several amusing phrases like:Today's college graduates are soft-protected from the realities of programming by source level debuggers, text editors that count parentheses and user-friendly operating systems.Bad response time doesn't bother the Real Programmer: It gives him a chance to catch a little sleep between

Ubuntu Linux: First approach on my Asus eee-pc netbook

2009-01-17T13:34:00.005+01:00

Currently, I have to work on several projects that are required to take part at the exams in february. Projects... in the particular of studying Computer Sciences this is, of course: programming. Quite a lot.Last semester I wrote all my projects under Windows... *shame on me*But two days ago, I thought it's time to move forward... so I installed Ubuntu on my EEE-PC. It was somewhat tricky since

German language... some interesting links

2009-01-14T22:35:00.002+01:00

The popularity of German words in the English languageLast week I watched an English movie and... in the middle of it, one main character used a word, i havn't heard in English before .... with a quite familiar sounding..."leitmotiv""Ok,"- I thought - "you know there are some other words like 'rucksack' and 'bratwurst' not be forgotten 'kindergarden', maybe there are a lot more"no sooner said

Realbooks

2009-01-14T21:56:00.001+01:00

Recently, I bought the 3rd Part of the Realbook… For some of you, who have an instrument and like to play Jazz on it, it is surly well known… The Realbook, but for all others i will sumerise: It’s THE book of Jazz, many superb tunes are in it, well worked up as chords and melody only, so much room for improvising :) So…having the Realbook 1st sometime now and really liking it, I now decided to

Getting started... or: Hello World!

2009-01-14T21:55:00.001+01:00

It's me! I think I should introduce myself at first: Me. A student from Dresden studying Computer Science... oO "You're studying Computer Science"? Yeah of course, I know what you think: the reputation of 'geeks' is not the best at all, at least in good old Germany. It hope I can fight this prejudice, even though I sometimes will write about 'geekish' stuff ;) One last thing is to say: Why do I