Currently my main task for university is writing a long paper about some description logic in context middle-ware stuff. Before I begun I had to make a decision: which flavour of word-processing-software do I want to use? Out of OpenOffice, MS Office 2003, LaTeX und MS Office 2007 I picked the latter, mainly because of [...]
On touchscreen-only phones
I must admit: I’m a geek when it’s on small powerful PIM devices. After owning a Treo 180 since 2005 I wasn’t able to go back to standard boring mobile phones. So I was going to get the XDA mini from O2 Germany, which was one of the 1st generation touchscreen-only PocketPC-phones out there (don’t [...]
Sharing Confs on a dual-boot system – Part 1: Pidgin & Firefox
Recently I installed Feisty Fawn on my 2 and a half years old Asus Laptop and it works just like a charm (I really like those desktopFX). But since I have to use some MS stuff for university (like MS Project) and I get those progs for free (MSDNAA program) I’m using dual-boot on this [...]
Reincarnation of “University”
Within the last 3 or 4 weeks I decided to further develop a small game application for the J2ME (Java Micro Edition), a.k.a. a mobile phone game. I begun this one with 2 fellow students at university for some kind of practical exercise of the lecture “Java in Embedded Systems” and after about 4 to [...]