Gifts for computer scientists

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

So, you're looking for a really distinguished-looking watch for your wrist, right? But you find all those analogue watches just soooo boring? Maybe...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

The (almost exclusively jokingly used) eighth layer of the OSI model for network protocols is a nice way of saying that the problem lies with the p...

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...

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...

We can all agree that it can be pretty hard keeping up with all the latest social customs. One minute you shake a person's hand when you meet them,...

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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...

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...

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...