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Amateurfunk Fragenkatalog Lernkarten Ausarbeitung
Amateurfunk Lernkarten Im diesjährigen Amateurfunkkurs des ÖVSV Steiermark (Österreichischer Versuchssendeverband) konnten wir uns zusammenschließen, um gemeinsam den offiziellen Fragenkatalog für die...
View ArticleInteresting 31C3 talks
I wanted to summarize talks of 31C3 I watched: djb, Tanja Lange: ECCHacks – A gentle introduction to elliptic-curve cryptography (very introductory to ECC) Frank Rieger, Ron: Security Nightmares (was...
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Achievement unlocked: CEPT license
I received my CEPT license today Today the Austrian Bureau for Telecommunication sent me a letter containing my “Amateurfunkbewilligung”; better known as CEPT license. I passed the exam last week. Be...
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Evaluation quote
This guy!!! I literally could write 2000 characters, and I wouldn’t mind at all. I would NOT be surpriced if one day [insert some powerful government agency] knocks on his door and asks for a help to...
View ArticleGit repository to a VirtualBox guest via sshfs
The host has a git repository /home/meisterluk/repo and has VirtualBox running a UNIX operating system. We want to provide the git repository as read-only folder to the guest. Test system as host and...
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no actual ‘creative’ work
I just found that in the TU Graz newsgroup and I think it is worth sharing to the general public. I am censoring his name, because I don’t want to associate him with the quote he apologized for (as...
View ArticleComparison of the SDBM and CS programme at TU Graz
The following post analyzes the equivalence of the bachelor degrees curricula of Software Development and Business Management (SDBM) and Computer Science (CS) as published in 2010 by University of...
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Word cloud for programming languages according to Tiobe Index
I wanted to generate a word cloud with the current usage of programming languages for my talk at Grazer Linuxtage. I extracted the statistics from the TIOBE index, wrote a script to generate a string...
View Articlethe terror that lives in a speaker’s stomach
“the amount of terror that lives in a speaker’s stomach when giving a lecture is proportional to the square of the amount he doesn’t know about his audience.” Donald Knuth in “Things a Computer...
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IOS Press handling credit card information of its customer
IOS Press is a publishing house headquartered in Amsterdam, specialising in the publication of journals and books related to fields of scientific, technical, and medical research (via Wikipedia). It...
View ArticleHow tux21b fixed my regex
After working on it for about 90 hours of work, I finished my article “How tux21b fixed my regex”. It provides a nice in-depth performance analysis of regular expression matchings. Basically my result...
View ArticleUsability checklist for package managers
I get frustrated by bad package managers. Users need to get an overview over packages, their dependencies and operations. It is time to define a clear set of conventions every package manager should...
View ArticleRob Pike on C++ compile time
But then we also thought about… Why these things take so long? It’s mostly because of the dependency hierarchy. And in C++ (to a much greater extent than Java to say) the dependency hierarchy is very...
View ArticleForce-directed graph drawing
I just published my article Force-directed graph drawing with PySide which provides a framework to introduce programmers to force-directed graph drawing. It is meant to be educational and I...
View ArticleDonald Knuth about the Unicode Standard
“Hardcopy versions of the Unicode Standard have been among the most crucial and most-heavily used reference books in my personal library for years. Unicode allows me to celebrate the fact that computer...
View Article(Why) I am studying math
In winter term 2010, I started studying computer science. I finished a bachelor degree in “Computer Science” in summer 2014 and bachelor degree in “Software development and Business Management” in May...
View Articleturingmachine.js 1.0.0 released
It took me quite a hassle, but eventually I released turingmachine.js tonight in version 1.0.0. You can spot the deployed version here: http://lukas-prokop.at/proj/tm What is it about? In previous...
View ArticlePython riddle
Python 3.4.3 (default, Mar 26 2015, 22:03:40) [GCC 4.9.2] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> a = 42 >>> def f(): ... x = a ... a = 3...
View ArticleCheatsheet for 1.0.0 releases
In the past 3 years I have released several software packages and a few of them exceeded the 1.0.0 release. I am not confident with it. I need structure. I need a plan for 1.0.0 releases. So what is...
View ArticleMy second Kyusho experience
Today, on 15th of November 2015, our level 1 Kyusho course ended. I had my first experience with Kyusho in February when instructor Robert Göslbauer joined us in an introductory course for our...
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