Living room and bedroom gadgets for nerds

The axe in the house saves the carpenter. And the backup saves you having to beg the admin for help. So remember, dear children: make regular backu...

He who has the damage doesn't have to worry about the mockery - we know this saying, but not everyone has learned it. Everyone knows that anyone wi...

Oh, if only the world was like a computer... Then we'd know what to expect most of the time (!), how things behave and what goes where. With the sc...

What was that again with X? And how do I get Y? Can I do Z instead? It feels like 99 percent of all questions that admins, helpdesks and other serv...

Sometimes you just need a few moments to collect your thoughts. As people (fortunately) can't look into other people's heads, you have to somehow m...

With this sticker on your computer, you can make it absolutely clear, e.g. at a LAN party, that people should keep their hands off your computer......

Who hasn't experienced it: as soon as one of the technology neanderthals gets wind that you have anything remotely to do with computers, you are be...

If you regularly have to help other people with the simplest of tasks, the chances are good that you will become a BOFH, a Bastard Operator From He...

In 1989, Phil Katz thought that you could really make money with compression. He was not entirely wrong, because the invention of the ZIP format ma...