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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...

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 ...

Das Keyboard 6 Professional is the new generation of the successful and high-quality mechanical keyboards from Das Keyboard. With its stylish and ...

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...

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

What's the most popular answer to calls at the IT support hotline? Of course the sentence: "Have you tried turning it off and on again?&q...

To many people, especially to those who don't know a lot about computers, the Cloud seems to be a mystical place – all your data is simply beamed ...

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...

Got yourself a mechanical keyboard? Then you know they're well-known for their high quality and their good typing feel. A Das Keyboard, a Filco or ...

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...

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...

Layer 8 of the OSI model for network protocols is almost exclusively used in a joking manner to imply that most problems are not problems of the sy...

"Is your computer running low on disk space? Are old holiday pictures and text documents clogging your hard drive? Then simply put everything into ...

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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...

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...

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...

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

Basically, programming has a lot in common with Lego: on the one hand, it's worth starting at a young age (keyword: practice makes perfect), and on...

The good ol'’ floppy disk!How we loved you when you were our go-to portable, long-term memory solution. We shared so many happy years…!Not tha...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

There are a few unwritten rules everybody in IT should always follow. And trust us, if you decide to ignore these rules, you definitely won't want ...

Anyone who has ever worked in IT support will know what the following situation is like: "Can you help me? My computer crashed and I can't get to a...

Imagine arriving at the office, sitting down at your desk in order to do all the important bug fixes , whilst sipping your coffee... when all of t...

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...

Fans of mechanical keyboards will already know that Das Keyboard is the go-to place for high-quality devices that not only feature mechanical switc...

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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,...

Anyone who's ever developed a program knows that just because it works on one person's computer, doesn't means it works on another! Given the almos...

Penguins are cool, pretty goofy and probably the only birds in the world who forgot to be birds. No other animal looks funnier waddling in the snow...

Comments in code are massively overrated. Those who are in the know don't need extra explanations.

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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...