What I always wanted to say
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Here is what I always wanted to say:
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Applications
For my mind is so little I need to write down software that fascinated me. You can participate by reading!
- measure your storage's IOPs using IOTest
- analyze source code using doxygen and SourceNaviGator
- show a traffic summary on your web server with Wusage
- schedule meetings with www.doodle.ch and Meeting Wizard
- manage the inventory of your datacenter with phpEquiMon
- lock and unlock your screen automatically with BlueProximity (cool idea)
- keep a USB disk as backup and sync it with one or several computers with Unison
- plan your appartment furniture with sweet home 3d
- to simulate keypresses, use xautomation
Essays
- the real innovations are those that you forget
- on free refills
- I am a wikiholic
- KDE blog: Kompiling in a virtual machine made fast
- KDE blog: From the middle of nowhere
- ThorstenOnSoftWare
- German: Philosophie
- German: Politik
- German: Arbeit
- blog
Innovations
All innovations have faced mis-understanding at the beginning. Here are some examples:
- An internet connection cost 8 DM + Traffic when it was introduced. So I said the internet will never gain momentum. Because with the internet, I could write mails for free. With every mail, I could replace a letter for 1.10 DM. So the internet would only pay off if I substituted more than 7 letters to friends by mail. And I never wrote 7 letters in a month!
- I am just digitalizing my video tapes. I saw one from 2000. There they announce Al Bundy' latest sayings on video text.
- I thought google could never possibly be successful. Just providing links for every possible search query and financing oneself via advertisements cannot possible pay back I thought. How wrong I was! Today I ask google how I can paint my room, where I can listen to this song and where I can buy paint. Of course, there is no better place for a paint advertisement than google when I search for paint...
My hobby benchmarks
FritzFon
- my self-invented headset for the FritzFon MT-F
Cool Links
- http://www.zinsen-berechnen.de/sparrechner.php
- http://www.telcoon.de - free telephone conferences
- koolhead17's page
- Feynman on why questions
- FCoE article (ignoring the fact that overhead provides error correction)
- F14
- battleship firing
- phptidy code-reformatter, a wrapper around get_all_tokens
- My german wikipedia links
- Google's translator
- Friend site of BeSi
- Reset your Windows password
- Union Pacific 4001 working
all time favorites
I recommend to read/watch this:
| title | type of intellectual enjoyment | language |
|---|---|---|
| the central approach - write a spec/concept once, use it many times | online essay | English |
| Der Schwarm | book | German |
| http://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/essay/-/id=659852/nid=659852/did=10205562/1b4qxae/index.html - man muss dran glauben. Was Religion und Oekonomie gemeinsam haben ;) | online essay | German |
| http://www.businessknowhow.com/marketing/firecust.htm - the "fire your customers" myth | online essay | English |
| Beautiful Mind | movie | English |
| Idiocracy (commedy movie) | commedy movie | English |
| The hitch hiker's guide to the Galaxy | read the book, the movies are worthless | English |
| Sebastian Haffner: Anmerkungen zu Hitler | book | German |
| Wir Kinder von Bahnhof Zoo (Film/Buch)Sebastian Haffner: Anmerkungen zu Hitler | book | German |
| Trainspotting | movie | English |
| Joel on company cultures | online essay | English |
| Joel on Unix' "haughtiness-from-a-position-of-weakness" | online essay | English |
| Joel on fire and motion | online essay | English |
| Joel on user interfaces, part 1 | online essay | English |
| Joel on user interfaces, part 3 Home of the sentence "And believe you me, users care about a lot less things than you might think. They are using your software to accomplish a task." | online essay | English |
| Joel on Pricing Strategies | online essay | English |
| Joel on Leaking Abstractions | online essay | English |
| Joel on good bad Bloatware | online essay | English |
| there should be an option to disable eating all my email | online essay | English |
Where I contribute
There are some open-source projects where I contribute code:
- KDE
- X.org
- mediawiki
Also, I contribute to some wikis:
- ThorstenStaerk on wiki.linuxquestions.org
- ThorstenStaerk on www.man-wiki.net
- ThorstenStaerk on de.wikipedia.org
- ThorstenStaerk on en.wikipedia.org
- Tstaerk on techbase.kde.org
- ThorstenStaerk on userbase.kde.org
- Tstaerk on en.opensuse.org
- tstaerk on wiki.kde.org
Also, here on www.staerk.de/thorsten, you find programs from me, but in case I regard them as useful, I also put them on http://www.freshmeat.net. If I find my tutorials useful, I put them into one of the above wikis.
