Daniel's Journal

What American accent do you have?

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:05:30 GMT

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The Midland
The South
Boston
The West
North Central
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

How to handle telemarketers. ^^

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:43:31 GMT

This is how to correctly handle telemarketers. Enjoy. ^^

UPDATE:
Ooops. The video didn't work quite right.

Tensai erekutoon shoujo vs. Jonii Deppu o_O

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:20:42 GMT

天才エレクトーン少女ｖｓジョニー・デップ
Tensai erekutoon shoujo vs. Jonii Deppu
Little naturally gifted Electone girls vs. Johnny Depp

This created a whole new dimension of WTFness for me. o_O

zuiikin english

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:07:42 GMT

Important English lessons for Japanese girls. XD

Wtf? (Pool)

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:33:14 GMT

http://www.clipfish.de/player.php?videoid=MjAyfDE%3D

Hyak! Hyak! Hyak!

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:24:15 GMT

Omfg XD

> Hyak! Hyak! Hyak! <

Japanese fact of the day

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:25:47 GMT

Japanese fact of the day:
The Japanese kanji for "man" (男 = otoko) is a combination of the kanjis for "rice paddy" (田 = ta) and "force" (力 = chikara).
x_x

Nihongo!

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:42:07 GMT

Japanese is a very fascinating, beautiful and interesting language, learning it is definitely challenging (which makes it interesting and worthwhile) and I've been planning to learn it for quite some time. Now I finally decided to actually start learning it. I already figured out some of the basics and learned a few hiragana. 'gotta get a few books after christmas and learn a few more hiragana and katakana until then.
Ganbatte, me!

Cat

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:18:54 GMT

The inevitable return of the great black dude

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:40:10 GMT

The hacker is back. My server is being attacked since 28 hours straight, now.
We just requested the attack log from our ISP and are going to bring a charge against the hacker.

Hackers

Sat, 03 Sep 2005 10:28:41 GMT

WTF!?
The attack on my webserver is a professional one! And the longest one ever experienced by my Internet Service Provider (ISP). Which is totally nuts because it's one of the biggest ISPs in Europe!
It's a DDoS SYN-Flood attack (Distributed Denial of Service - SYN-Flood) and works like this:
DDoS: Several Computers Worldwide get hacked by a hacker who then infects them with a program that does nothing else but attacking our server without the owner of the infected hacking computer noticing. We're talking about insane numbers of hacked computers worldwide here. Those computers start a
SYN-Flood attack on our server: To establish an internet connection between 2 PCs (client and webserver [http], client and mailserver, 2 computers communicating with messengers, 2 computers communicating with filesharing tools, .......) using the TCP protocol (very common. for simple messages without any sort of connection and delivery control the alternative is UDP) those PCs need to run through a handshake procedure.
The 3-way-handshake-protocol of TCP: The computer that wants to connect sends a SYN (synchronize) message containing a random number to the other computer. That other computer now responds with a SYN/ACK (synchronize/acknowledged) message containing an own random number for the SYN and the number it received + 1 for the ACK. Now the 1st computer has to respond with an ACK containing the sent random number + 1. Or an RST (reset connection) or FIN (terminate connection). Since the connection only becomes established, confirmed and controllable after that last step there is no way to know whether the 1st computer received the SYN/ACK. So as long as the server doesn't receive an ACK, RST or FIN it has to assume the SYN/ACK timed out and send it over and over again. Resulting in a huge memory leak due to many server processes for all the connections, heavy CPU load because of all the connections and huge amounts of datatraffic. Which basically results in the server not being able to offer its services and generating lots of expensive datatraffic. Just imagine running 60.000ish programs on your computer. Same effect.
The program the hacker has distributed on his hacked computers only sends the first SYN but then doesn't do anything else, which requires quite some programming skills because usually the handshaking is done by the operating system.

Sooo now you all know what's happening. A professional hacker has been running a worldwide DDoS SYN-Flood attack targeted on our server for the longest timespan our huge european ISP has ever experienced.

SYN-Flood - or - How do you get me to sue you in 2 hours.

Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:43:26 GMT

Sooo... Someone seems to have some fun killing my Server by SYN-Flooding it.
Just in case the attacker is reading this.... The attacks are being logged while the server is down.
We're gonna get you... And the longer the server and the hosted commercial sites are down the more fun you're gonna get with us.

Hmm... The subject doesn't matter.

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:23:42 GMT

sO now i'M SiTTing hErE WrITIng tHis poinTLESs tExT. LoOKS PrETTy StUpiD, doesn't IT? WelL, maYBe iT mAkES more SeNSe tHan it Seems. on THE oTher HAnD side IT pRobAbLY DoeS'Nt. sEE YOU! D.

Tagged by Harmsy

Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:43:54 GMT

Ten years ago: I loved to play computer games with networked computers with my formerly best friend.

Five years ago: I was at a driving school to get my drivers license.

One year ago: I finished my first year at the university.

Yesterday: I went barbecueing with a few other people from this hallway in the nearby park.

Today: I'm gonna go to the movies to see The War of the Worlds.

Tomorrow: I don't know yet.

Five snacks I enjoy: Zwiebelmett Brötchen, (Roll w/ raw meat, onion and pepper.), Carazza, Jaffa Cake, Cheeseburgers, Pears

Five bands that I know the lyrics of MOST of their songs: JBO, Die Ärzte, Die Schröders, Die Toten Hosen, Wir sind Helden (I guess)

Five things I would do with $100,000,000: Study Game Programming at the Games Academy in Berlin, build the most modern and fun house that the world has ever seen, get a pilot license and something I can fly and I'd take a few people to a certain meeting. ^^

Five locations I'd like to run away to: California, Canada, Australia, Japan (for a short while), dunno (Preferrably big cities near the beach. ^^)

Five things I like doing: Going to the movies, Bowling, Travelling, Playing computer games, Programming

Five things I wish I could wear: Ermm... I have no idea.

Five TV shows I like: Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, TV Total, Stern TV, Tru Calling

Five movies: The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Shrek, Ice Age, Summer of the monkeys

Five famous people I'd like to meet: Five? That's a tough one... Katie Stuart, Michael Morhaime, ... after 10 minutes of thinking I gave up.

Five biggest joys at the moment: Holidays, Going to see the Blueman Group in Berlin, Going to go on a barbecue with a few internet friends in Switzerland, Going to the movies quite a couple of times, Going to go playing Gotcha with few people soon.

Five favorite toys: Laptop, Levitating Disco Globe (But it's broken so I gotta get a new one some time.), Digital TV Receiver, erm..... nothing else.

Five People who I would like to see do this: tgwozdz, katiestuart, angelrings, michaelwelch, timaeus_de

Lol - Anything alright? ^^

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:55:11 GMT

Hmmm... I wonder whether I have to know that for the multimedia test tomorrow:

MPEG-1 Audio is defined by ISO/IEC 11172-3:1993 Part 3 (ISO IEC JTC1 SC29 WG11)

Lol?

For all those who went all o.O over that: ISO = International Standards Organization, IEC = International Electotechnical Commission, JTC1 = Joint Technical Committee 1, SC29 = Sub-Committee 29, WG11 = Work Group 11 (moving pictures with audio), ISO/IEC 11172-3:1993 = Coding of moving pictures and associated audio for digital storage media at up to about 1.5 Mbps, Part 3 = Audio.

But seriously.... wtf!? o.O

Livejournal fixed

Fri, 07 Jan 2005 20:41:35 GMT

My livejournal comments didn't show up in other ppl.'s friends-pages since october. This is fixed now. :D Yay! :)

Entry submitted :)

Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:15:43 GMT

2 minutes ago I have successfully submitted my application for the US diversity visa lottery. :D
Let's see what happens. :)

Discrete Cosine Transform

Sun, 12 Dec 2004 02:28:02 GMT

Finally - Another point removed from my agenda. :)
If you like playing around with image spectrums you may want to play with the
DCT Tool (Input value range: -128..127) I had to program. It's a part of the JPEG compression/decompression procedure and responsible for the transformation of a block of picture data to its 2-dimensional color-spectrum.
The complete sourcecode is available here.

The biggest christmas tree of the world

Mon, 06 Dec 2004 19:54:12 GMT

Oh. I always thought the biggest christmas tree of the world would be the one in front of the Rockefeller Center in NY. As I found out today it's only half as tall as the real biggest christmas tree of the world... which is in Dortmund and thus only a 10 minute walk away from here. 8-O This one is 46 m = 150.9 ft high. (The NY christmas tree 2002 was 76 ft high.) ehh... wow.

Rawcopied from cat_with_tales

Thu, 02 Dec 2004 12:29:48 GMT

If there is at least one person in your life who you consider a close
friend, and who you would not have met without being part of an online
fandom, post this sentence in your journal.

First steps... :)

Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:16:03 GMT

Hi!

I just made my first steps in 3d-programmming! :D
I made a first 3D windows app using a library called glut. :)

Yay! :)

Teapot!

Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:46:08 GMT

Wooo! I managed to write a program that renders a 3D-wireframe-teapot to a fullscreen-window using Glut and OpenGL! :D
Yay for teapots! :)

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Borrowed from crispinhellion:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your own bulletin...along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

"Der Skonto wird standardmäßig mit 16% Umsatzsteuer interpretiert und auf Konto 8735/4735 (Gewährte Skonti 16% USt) bzw. 3735/5735 (Erhaltene Skonti 16% Vorsteuer) gebucht." ( -A manual for an accountancy program... *yawn*)

Glut - First attempts in 3d-programming

Sun, 21 Nov 2004 18:05:16 GMT

Okay - So I'm supposed to start 3d-programming using glut. It's supposed to make OpenGL programming easier, but....
I feel like I'd have to be an expert in build'ology to get my hello world program running. :-| I mean - Hey. I just want to click "Build" as I usually do. I hate makefiles... And why do all those demo-programs have a main() function!? Aren't OpenGL programs supposed to have a WinMain() instead!? :-|

"Your order has shipped"

Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:01:44 GMT

Hey - I always wanted to make one of those weird Angela-style posts. This is my chance! *takes it*

Woo! My amazon.com order has shipped today! :D

Ehhh... Ok. No World of Warcraft yet.

Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:32:44 GMT

Note to self: Read about the fact that the open beta signups are closed before downloading 2.5 GB of World of Warcraft next time....

But hey - At least I can watch the cinematics over and over again now and keep my harddisk space reserved.