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Today's the day that my family has been waiting for over the past 7 years. I got my report card and certificate and ... I finished my studies. I am now a so called Diplom-Informatiker. :-)

Oh, and for those interested... here's the Diplom thesis paper titled something like "Architecture for self-configuring services on highly resource limited ( Read more... )

Dropping 22TB of patches on 6,500 PCs in 4 hours: BitTorrentApparently, software updates are getting so big these days that simply downloading them from a server is becoming prohibitively time consuming, especially when the same updates need to be applied to many different machines. A Dutch university has some 6,500 desktop PCs in ten locations, ( Read more... )

So today is the day I had awaited for the past 6 years I spent at University. I had to optimize a logic equation that wasn't entirely obvious, to save precious bytes of program memory.
ABXY &or ABX¬Y ∨ A¬BX¬Y &or AB¬XY ∨ ¬AB¬XY
≡AX(B ∨ ¬Y) ∨ B¬XY
Which resulted in the following source code
if( ((q_id & NIP_MDNS_QUERY_ID_MASK) == (cs->q_id & ( Read more... )

Last sunday Janine and I went for a walk from Berlin Schöneweide to Adlershof. The weather was beautiful and we enjoyed the former Johannisthal Air Field, which is now a large park. It's strange, because it consists mostly of gras, and reminds me of Oklahoma. :) It's very quiet though, and being there it doesn't feel like you're still in town. That ( Read more... )

Today, Andreas and I finally applied for our Diplom, which we had to do to officially get started with our thesis. Our thesis topic is Architektur für selbstkonfigurierend Dienste auf Basis minimaler eingebetteter Systeme
which kind of means Architecture for self configuring Services based on minimal embedded systems
So what we're doing is develop ( Read more... )

Had my last exam today, that is - I can now start working on my Diplomarbeit. :)

But before I'll

• clean up my desk,
• clean the appartment,
• work,
• find a better notebook, and
• waste some time :)

After years of watching me (not)write my Studienarbeit, some of you probably gave up on the thought of seeing me finish it any time near.

Well, that time has come!

Andreas and I finished the paperwork. The programming had been done for almost a year, mostly. All we had to do was to write a paper about it, and HERE IT IS - 87 beautiful pages ( Read more... )

I had planned to spend the whole day with Andreas so we could finally come up with a release candidate of our research paper. But it turned out this day was all about problem solving. I got up 6am to be at a client's office early. They had a problem with a Software I wrote and I had to fix it. I was done with that at about 11am ( Read more... )

So there they are again, my computer problems. Hell, as a computer science major I really shouldn't have that kind of trouble. :( My laptop crashes once in a while, and I even got used to it somehow, it doesn't happen too often, which means: I hadn't lost any important data so far. Tuesday in class it showed another weird effect. Depending on how I ( Read more... )