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As I wrote in an earlier post I went to Genesis’ Turn It On Again Tour concert in Düsseldorf tonight. I was a bit disappointed about the acoustics and I didn’t like the entire playlist, but all in all it was a great show.

Now I am looking forward to seeing [...]

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Na, das nenne ich mal ein nettes Geburtstagsgeschenk. Die Pokes haben Hurrican released. Aber seht selbst:
http://www.hurrican-game.de/
Danke auch für den freundlichen Seitenhieb auf poke53280.de — wir geben Martin noch den Vorzug und releasen dann 2012 als letzte! So, und jetzt geh ich es mal anspielen.
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Wow, what a weekend. We had a sechsta sinn team meeting and made excellent progress on DVW, and our Velox3D folks seemed to make good progress as well. We have released a very first DVW video in our diary, mainly for testing purposes. We are going to release more of them soon, though. A new [...]

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Ich bin schon lange kein “Fernseher” mehr - die passive Berieselung ist mir einfach zu langweilig -, und zurückblickend kann ich wohl sagen, dass mich nur zwei Serien bisher wirklich begeistert haben. Als Kind war das die 1984 und 1986 im ZDF ausgestrahlte BBC-Produktion “The Tripods” (deutscher Titel: “Die dreibeinigen Herrscher”, kleiner Trailer gefällig?), die [...]

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For me, being born in 1979, the year 2007 seems to be somewhat like the return of the dinosaurs. Accidentially I ran across a news that The Police will rejoin for a tour beginning May 28th!
The day after they opened the Grammy Awards telecast, the Police broke the news that they will begin a global [...]

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Fellow #gamedev.ger channel resident Tim-Oliver “The_Fallen” Husser is currently residing in Cape Town, South Africa and has started a blog. I’m feeling the desperate need of a holiday when I look at the pictures…
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So, last post for today: Happy New Year everyone!
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I have a wide spread taste in music. The last concert I was on was Faithless, and now I’m going to see the next one! Another band I really like is Genesis. In particular, I like those albums recorded with Phil Collins as the lead vocalist. And I like Phil Collins and Chester Thompson as [...]

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I promise, if this isn’t my very last posting on hardware and hardware driver issues (todays topic), I will add an own category. But since I finally found a solution for my last PC problem, namely BSODs caused by adidts.sys, I feel the urge to blog about that.
adidts.sys is the SoundMAX high definition audio driver [...]

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Armed Assault
I loved Operation Flashpoint. To be honest, I still play it today. Only a few games appeal to me, and this one had a very unique atmosphere. I still remember how nervous I was when all my virtual comrades died in a helicopter crash and I was alone in a forrest full of enemies… [...]

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About leadership, long-time motivation and success.
We, as a team, attended Dusmania 2001 and 2003, and we held very successful presentations in those years. In 2001, we made it into the popular German “PC Magazin”, where DVW was entitled the “most professional looking game”, and in 2003 we won the prize for the best Dusmania project, [...]

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I returned from holidays on Thursday, and to the left is one of my favorite holiday impressions. For the first time in my life I’ve been so close to a Giraffe which is such a beautiful and good-natured animal. Other things I enjoyed was driving a Jeep Wrangler through the narrow and poor mountain [...]

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Two o’clock am. Buzzer at quarter past six. Plane takes off at 12:55am. I’m off for holidays. If you want to meet me, go here.
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When I look through the news these days, it seems to me like the whole world is sick. I don’t agree to the recent Uno resolution regarding the war in Lebanon (and it’s just sick that people argue that this cannot be called a war yet); I neither want to leave my fingerprints when I [...]

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You know, when I started this blog, I thought I would write about personal stuff and software engineering to a certain extent. I never dared I would blog so much about damn hardware like I do now.
This time, it’s my old 21″ CRT. This evening, it made some strange noise and started to smell a [...]

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Feels like I am on a losing streak: my hardware got broken, my ordered processor got cancelled by AMD so there’s a serious supply shortage at the moment (delivery date got postponed three times to 6/9 to 6/23 to 6/30), and finally my DSL line died, too, yesterday, and my highly praised ISP did not [...]

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This is my guess for the first day of the soccer world cup (the actual results are updated as the games end):

Guess
Actual

Germany
:
Costa Rica
2:1
4:2

Poland
:
Ecuador
2:1
0:2

England
:
Paraguay
3:0
1:0

Trinidad and Tobago
:
Sweden
0:2
0:0

Argentinia
:
Côte d’Ivoire
2:0
2:1

Serbia and Montenegro
:
Netherlands
0:1
0:1

Mexico
:
Iran
1:2
3:1

Angola
:
Portugal
1:2
0:1

But I have no clue about sports in general so bear with me.
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After years on a 60Hz CRT at 1600×1200, I decided to get a 20″ TFT. It’s a Samsung SyncMaster 204B which is one of the cheaper models on the market, but it turned out to be a real bargain and I am really satisfied with it.

I like the pivot function. Although it is unfamiliar for [...]

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Some entries below I wrote about my ISP NetCologne who doubled the DSL bandwidth the second time for no fee. Some days ago, my webspace provider all-inkl.com doubled the webspace for no fee, too! Although the reality is that there might be better and cheaper hosters out there, it makes me feel like I did [...]

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A friend of mine is living in Houston, Texas, and joined Houston Storm, a blog on the Rita hurrican which is approaching the US south east coast, some days ago. Now he turned off most of his computers, uncertain where to wait for the approach. All the best from here, and good luck to you [...]

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