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On the one hand, this might be understood as a parody on Star Wars, but it is also so much more: an ideal of the open source movement. If you cann...

Computer owners and producers just love to show off all the good stuff inside their PC cases, and everybody who invests in a new microprocessor wil...

When you're out and about on social media, you occasionally stumble across the odd comment that makes you question the sanity of some people. Until...

Programmers who use pointers should be careful because they aren't far away from hell ;) At least that's what the 2nd of the 10 commandme...

Linux - The choice of the GNU generation.

True story."Look, Mum, with the new router you don't need cables anymore! Now you can use WLAN in the whole house"."So can I wr...

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...

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...

What's the trick behind all the software and where does it come from? That's what we asked ourselves and then we went on a investigation....

Whether it's the software, hardware or the analog world outside the computer - sometimes, when things have gotten too convoluted and overheated, al...

To understand recursion, you have to understand recursion first.

There has to be an end to this dumb "Connection reset by peer".

It's not enough for talented coders to write their own code, they try to analyze other programs and hardware too! For example, they'll wr...

An answer to every single newbee question... Now you do not even have to make the effort to open your mouth!For those who do not know (and are afra...

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...

Who remembers the good old times when you had to choose between Internet and talking on the phone? The Dial-up connection needed the modem and ever...

Everyone who speaks a language with special characters knows the problem: Wrong encoding.

The main assumption of the computer and network security principle "security by obscurity" is that a system cannot be compromised if nobody on the ...

Without words.

Uh Oh...Moments where you do not want to be the database admin...

To be or not to be, that is the question.2b, or not 2b, that is the question./(bb|[^b]{2})/ We knew it: coders are poets. If only Shakespeare had b...

For all those code monkeys among you ;-)

Sometimes it's astonishingly easy to hack into other computer systems. Just pick up your phone and say: "Hi. This is your system administ...

This quote by Linus is dead-on :)

Homo sapiens are not the top of the chain anymore - it's homo-geekeins now!

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