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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 ...

Comments in the code are grossly overrated. Everything is already there! If you have a plan of the matter, you don't need any extra explanations ;)

As a nerd, one needs to be careful. One small mishap, one mistake and the whole disguise of a friendly and harmless computer guy can come crumbling...

A progress bar for human thinking processes could be pretty useful, don't you think? Everyone would know whether there's enough time to go get a cu...

In the bible, the Four Horsemen are the personifications of war, hunger, pestilence and death. But even those who don’t believe in the Christian ve...

Look again!Even on t-shirts, the number of bugs increases by the day. All getDigital t-shirts are of course way past the beta phase ;)

It's safe to say that without IT specialists, the world as we know it could hardly function. Most aspects of our lives, whether we realize it or no...

How can I do X? And how does Y work? Can I do Z instead? Almost 99 percent of all questions that admins, helpdesks and other service agents get tor...

"Too many cooks spoil the broth!" - a principle that not only applies in the kitchen but also the world of IT. When it comes to identifying former ...

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...

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One nice aspect of mastering a language that not everyone understands is the possibility of being able to make a lot of inside jokes. This is espec...

"Hey, you're working with computers, right? Can you take a look at my laptop? Internet Explorer is extremely slow and this moose keeps asking for m...

Sometimes you just need a little longer to sort out your thoughts. Just point to the button and finish thinking. That way everyone knows and you ha...

Mechanical keyboards are usually a double-edged sword for Mac users, as they often only have the labelling for the PC. Not so The MacTigr keyboard,...

At times, we reach the point where our brain just refuses to function properly and even the simplest tasks are impossible to complete. Most program...

When it's done, it's done and everything will run the way you expect it to run. Well, in theory...In a couple of months, you might have to make som...

Do you hate it if someone leaves smudge marks on your screen because they want to point out something on it?With this sticker, you can help them un...

Sometimes you just need a few moments to collect your thoughts. As people (fortunately) can't look into other people's heads, you have to somehow m...

If only the world was more like a computer, we’d at least know what to expect, how things behave and where things would belong. Well, most of the t...

While navigating the sheer endless realms of a local network, novice users need to be careful not to lose track of all the different IP addresses. ...

In the digital world, it's safe to assume that almost no aspect of our everyday lives would work without computer scientists. Following that logic,...

Tell everyone that it's better to keep away from your computer... and your network, too. Perfect for LAN-Partys. The sticker measures about 10cm x ...

It is surprisingly easy to hack into other computer systems, often a simple phone call does the trick: "Hello, I am your system administrator. I ne...

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

Let's be honest: anyone who needs additional explanations besides the code wouldn't understand your explanations anyway. The next time someone asks...

Isn't it a good feeling to have power over many computers and users? Of course, backups don't help against a real admin, but users only realize tha...

At least in theory, we nerds should not have problems with curfews, right? After all, we usually spend the majority of our time at home in front of...

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 ...

Who hasn't experienced it: as soon as one of the technology neanderthals gets wind that you have anything remotely to do with computers, you are be...

What the Force is to Jedis, the source code is to computer scientists. If you control it, you basically control everything. But remember: with grea...

Confident 127.0.0.1, happiness alone. With this button you can declare all kinds of things to be your home. But whether other people will accept th...

"You are dumb" in binary ASCII-code.The right answer to all DAU questions (including the one on what's written on your T-shirt): You are dumb! ;-)

Fortunately, crowded keyboards with tons of extra buttons that you’ll never actually use are (mostly) a thing of the past! Instead, more and more p...

Let's keep our computers clean and ban Unicode! Abominations like Unicode are destroying our good nerd-values and when you get right down to it, AS...