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2014-06-16
Disabling LUKS encryption without backing up and restoring the whole partition

The problem: When installing Ubuntu, Debian or another flavour of Linux you chose to encrypt the hard disk, but now you want to get rid of the password prompt while booting. How do you do this without backing up, reformatting and restoring the entire partition? Read more...
2013-12-08
Conditorei Schober - Zurich Panorama

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2013-12-04 20:16 8mm f/5.6 0.4s ISO200 Location

Navigatable panorama inside! Read more...
2013-05-21
MythTV: Use All Buttons of Your Remote Control - Without LIRC

It can be really frustrating to get a remote control to work properly under Linux with LIRC and programs like MythTV, mplayer or XMBC. This article shows how to avoid using LIRC altogether: Treat the remote like any other keyboard, then change the keyboard mapping to use the application's key shortcuts. Because we do this before the keypresses reach X11, it avoids the dreaded problem of keys with codes >255 not working. Read more...
2012-01-22
Christmas with Circus Conelli - Zurich Panorama

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2011-12-30 16:46 9mm f/5.6 2s ISO200 Location

Navigatable panorama inside! Read more...
2011-01-02
Lost atterer.net to a Domain Grabber - Thank You 1blu!

Welcome to atterer.org! After exactly 10 years, I have lost control over my domain atterer.net. Update your links and mail addresses to use .org instead of .net - sorry for the inconvenience! Here is a (boring) explanation of what happened. Read more...
2010-06-09
Website Relaunch

After 15 (!) years, the previous design of my homepage had become ever so slightly outdated, so here is the result of several months of CSS and Drupal work. Enjoy!
2010-05-22
Hauptseminar: Hybride Automaten

Ausarbeitung zum Hauptseminar Design hybrider, eingebetteter Systeme (Lehrstuhl Broy, Technische Universität München, 2001): Hybride Automaten
2010-05-22
Interdisziplinäres Projekt: Internet-Auftritt der Firma GULP

Interdisziplinäres Projekt für Informatik mit Nebenfach Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische Universität München, 2001: Analyse und Überarbeitung des Internet-Auftritts der Firma GULP Information Services GmbH.
2010-05-22
Diploma Thesis: Efficient Storage of XML Data Streams

Diploma thesis at the group of Donald Kossmann and Rudolf Bayer (of B-tree fame), Technische Universität München, December 2002. German title: “Effiziente Speicherung von XML-Datenströmen”

The diploma thesis discusses the efficient storage of XML documents for XML databases. A prototypical implementation of a XML storage engine is presented.
2010-05-22
Automatic Test Data Generation From VDM-SL Specifications

This program and the accompanying dissertation are the result of a software engineering project I did in the 1999/2000 term. The project involved the specification, design, implementation and testing of a program, as well as a presentation of the final result. Read more...