My thoughts on software, www and some more

Are you using Linux and would like some more screen reso­lu­tion than your cur­rent dis­play offers? The ultra short ver­sion: On a ter­mi­nal, type “xrandr –out­put VGA1 –scale 1.5x1.5″. Voila, that’s it! Read the full blog post for details.

I haven’t seen anything as slow as this ser­ver for a long time. In addi­tion to being just slow, it has to be manu­ally reboo­ted once a day to work reli­a­bly, which is not a real option for me. If you should notice this site being slow, buggy or even off­line, please excuse me, and […]

Sorry dear rea­ders and com­men­ters, the com­ment fea­ture on this site was bro­ken for an unknown time, so any com­ments you tried to write in the recent past may be fore­ver lost. If your com­ment alre­ady appeared online, it’s pro­bably still there (unless you are an evil spam bot).
The fea­ture has now been repai­red so you […]

Ich will eigent­lich gar nicht lange drum rum reden, weil der Knack­punkt die­ses Tex­tes ein­fach zu wich­tig ist. Denn nach der Vor­rede über kind­li­chen Irr­glau­ben möchte ich dann letzt­lich zei­gen, dass doch alles anders ist, als jeder denkt. Wer es also eilig hat, sollte viel­leicht ein­fach mal run­ter scrol­len, einen Blick auf die Bil­der werfen, […]

Pro­ject Port­fo­lio
After more than a month of tes­ting and opti­mi­zing, my pro­ject port­fo­lio is now fully avail­able. This means, you can now get an over­view of what I’ve done (mostly while stu­dy­ing “Medi­en­in­for­ma­tik”) and what I’m cur­rently doing, as well as read all the details about each of those pro­jects.
In addi­tion to what was online […]

If you were here before, you pro­bably noti­ced that I rede­si­gned this blog. This is not only because I became aware of the pre­vious ugliness, but is also nee­ded as pre­pa­ra­tion for the next big change on bri​an​schim​mel​.de: Launching the “pro­ject archive”.
There is a new link at the top, cal­led “pro­jects (beta)”. This post is […]

XHTML docu­ments are (at least I always belie­ved so) XML docu­ments, and as such, should be par­sed with an XML par­ser. I don’t know of any par­sers or data models which would even be able to dis­tin­gu­ish
<div></div>
from
<div/​>
So I would assume that both are valid markup. Or maybe, both would be inva­lid. But as far as  […]

In Janu­ary, an eath­quake struck Haiti, and OpenStreetMap’s volun­teers hel­ped. I mis­sed my chance, and now that Chile has been affec­ted by an earth­quake, I can’t help due to mis­sing satel­lite image sources.

This post was ori­gi­nally writ­ten on Decem­ber 3rd, but I for­got to publish it.
If you want a funny ver­sion if this, go read “Why I believe prin­ters were sent from hell to make us mise­ra­ble” by the Oat­meal. If you want to know how well prin­ters suc­cee­ded at the task of making me miserable, […]

Edit: I asked a rela­ted ques­tion on stack​over​flow​.com, but since it was “not pro­gramming rela­ted” (!!!) is was moved over to supe​r​u​ser​.com, where I got a nice ans­wer and an even nicer com­ment to the ans­wer. Now I know that “apt-​​​​file” can figure out which library to install, and 90% of my usual lib-​​​​install-​​​​sorrow is […]