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Nobody likes to fix the mistakes another person has made due to incompetence, laziness or simply by accident. But when you yourself are that person...

This year's line-up of the Hacken Open Air is probably the best one ever: The headliners sudo's Priest and Gnutallica will set the Black Hat Stage ...

As we all know, hindsight is 20/20. This universally applicable wisdom can also be used to describe informatics, especially debugging (i.e. testing...

Isn't it amazing what the human brain is capable of? Not only has it secured us our place at the top of the food chain, it can also adapt extremely...

Anyone who's even remotely interested in electronics and tinkering would probably take a bath in LEDs, batteries, transistors and other parts Scroo...

Imagine that you’ve just created a model that allows different technical systems to communicate with each other and that features different layers ...

Even a computer scientist/genius/geek/nerd (delete as appropriate!) has to take a vacation every now and then. He/she leaves the familiar lab, offi...

The computer is on but the monitor stays black.Problem reports like that make IT guys and tech-savvy, helpful geeks like us just criiiinge, don...

As we all know, silent waters run deep. While software development does not exactly have anything to do with water, the basic principle of the sayi...

What's the most popular answer to calls at the IT support hotline? Of course the sentence: "Have you tried turning it off and on again?&q...

Sometimes a simple card game is the best pastime. You know, those times when you're forced to de-digitise, or because of those slow university or w...

Got yourself a mechanical keyboard? Then you know they're well-known for their high quality and their good typing feel. A Das Keyboard, a Filco or ...

To many people, especially to those who don't know a lot about computers, the Cloud seems to be a mystical place – all your data is simply beamed ...

Your external hard drive is droning and blinking even though it's in standby mode... Doh! Those USB gadgets can only be turned off by unpluggi...

This gadget should by no means be confused with ordinary status lights. No, blink(1) mk3 isn't just a flickering light on the edge of your keyboard...

The home of a real geek needs a geeky doormat. This one expresses the common feeling amongst geeks that their own home with their own computer is a...

Do you spend a lot of time on your computer? Maybe even eating in front of it? Then you should think about the best way to clean your keyboard, bec...

If one were to believe the genre legends Run DMC, hip-hop really does have one thing in common with informatics: It's tricky! While the trio of Run...

If you spend a lot of time in front of your computer, you'll know all about the importance of having a good working or gaming environment. Both req...

Basically, programming has a lot in common with Lego: on the one hand, it's worth starting at a young age (keyword: practice makes perfect), and on...

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Given that the binary system is widely used in IT (and thus in most parts of our lives), surprisingly few people actually understand the combinatio...

Something you may not know is that computer scientists have to deal with all sorts of trees. Quite often, the most common being the so-called binar...

Layer 8 of the OSI model for network protocols is almost exclusively used in a joking manner to imply that most problems are not problems of the sy...

Nobody likes to fix the mistakes another person has made due to incompetence, laziness or simply by accident. But when you yourself are that person...

If there is any profession entirely deserving of their own drinking song, it’s programmers.The so-called “Programmer’s Drinking Song”, a modificati...

Have you ever thought about the proper way to drink coffee? Sure, you might think: "Pour coffee into the mug, lift the mug, drink, repeat as necess...

Ahh, nothing beats a well-organized home, right? Everything exactly where it belongs, all the books organized by the astronomical sign of the autho...

"Is your computer running low on disk space? Are old holiday pictures and text documents clogging your hard drive? Then simply put everything into ...

Death, War, Pestilence and Hunger - one does not need to be familiar with the works of Albrecht Dürer to recognize this unholy quartet: The Four Ho...

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Fans of mechanical keyboards will already know that Das Keyboard is the go-to place for high-quality devices that not only feature mechanical switc...

Cookies – those small text files stored on your computer – have been around for quite a while. But only since 2021 have we had to consent to their ...

Das Keyboard 6 Professional is the new generation of the successful and high-quality mechanical keyboards from Das Keyboard. With its stylish and ...

Did you know that you can make a lot of money with compression? And we’re not talking about the inventors of WinRAR (who are most likely still wait...