With Windows 8.1, Microsoft introduced a feature called Windows-to-go which enables the installation of Windows on external drives. Only if you have a Microsoft-certified external drive. Only if you have Windows 8.1 Enterprise. If not? Bummer. Or? Actually, there is a way. Not wanting to "pollute" my internal…
Here's a short summary of things I have learned in the last months of OpenGL programming - sometimes the hard way (read: while destroying awful amounts of Club Mate and coffee). Some of these are rather subtle pitfalls and do not get mentioned in tutorials or books too often. * Textures…
Quite some time ago, I reckon it must have been around 2000, Intel decided to beef up the CPUID feature of their processors a bit: They added a globally unique, unchangable ID to the processor which could be read out by software - unless disabled in the BIOS. Public outcry…
@mdo [http://twitter.com/mdo] posted a nice list of HTML and CSS WTFs, common traps and pitfalls today - WTF, HTML and CSS? [http://wtfhtmlcss.com] My all-time favourite is still the box model of CSS [http://css-tricks.com/the-css-box-model/], which fortunately can now be remedied by the glorious…
For an Urban Planning project, my girlfriend needed building and elevation data for the city of Drohobych in Ukraine. My first idea involved segmenting buildings out of Google Maps or bing, but it turned out that OpenStreetMap is a much better and easier source for that kind of data! So…
While Ghost seems to be a great choice as blogging platform, it'd still be cool if I could have support for LaTeX via MathJax [http://www.mathjax.org], as there will be quite a few formula in this blog. Fortunately, it's quite easy to integrate MathJax into virtually any web…
So recently I acquired this nifty domain name. And this blog is now the first part that's online! But behold, there is more to come - for example: * Photography * Climbing * Programming * Lasers! * Programming with lasers! * ... Hope to see you around :)…