With some tweaks Fedora 23 runs rather well on this nice little machine!

Control your squeezebox music players from your Pebble!

Wrote a BLE driver and WeeWX connector for a Ventus W820 weather station.

Finally!

Another stroll around beautiful Chastè

Glad you finally found your way to ol'Europe!

Off-season Pontresina is deserted!

Very nice spring hike

Very nice two weeks

Beats getting depressed in Zurich fog

Yet another great CA trip. Thanks to Linnea + Dave and Betty + Arno!

I finally replaced my Java based panorama viewer with something reasonable.

I salvaged the parts off my broken bike , bought a new frame and topped it of with a Helios handle bar to add some brainz.

360 km until April 6!

.. after the shortest winter break ever: Dec 3 - Mar 8

I built myself a 3D printer. Read about the improvements I made to the original kit.

This website is now based on HTML5 and YAML.

This year's snow fun

Phoenix, AZ to San Francisco, CA

due to a horrible "spring", the 2013 season didn't start before April 14. Hence lower mileage than usual: only ~ 2000 km. Last tour was yesterday, December 8.

not bad: end of october, and still warm enough for a tour!

Probably last road bike tour this year

Around Pizol

The dinghy lips are not a botox experiment gone belly-up, but a head-on bee sting at 36 km/h.

Missus' bday hike

Via Ferrata Braunwald

Pictures of last US tour (CO, UT, NV) are online!

lotsa hiking

100 km road bike + 60 km MTB (including the amazing Felsenweg) + Via Ferrata Pinut (for more pix, see Andreas' website)

to my favorite spot in Kanton Zurich: Sternenberg

and what a wonderful replacement at that!

.. with a nice view and a nasty surprise

got myself a Bitcraze Crazyflie

third tour this year

a Logitech Media Server (LMS) plugin for Wefunk Radio

control RGB LED strip via I2C

Visit to the Papiliorama in Kerzers

Another highlight: Halloween at Edmeier's!

.. when I sit on my balcony.

with a twist: da missus threw me a surprise bday party! Thanks to all who could make it.

total hiking distance: 265 km

long story

great hiking weekend in Pontresina: day 1 and day 2.

Fricktaler Höhenweg between Frick and Mettau

DSLR Controller running on a Nook Color with CM9 is an incredibly cool way to control your Canon 550D.

are you using LVM but sometimes find it a bit difficult to keep track of your disk space? That's what happened with our numerous file servers and we decided to do something against it. So we came up with a nifty LVM visualization tool that generates interactive charts of the different LVM volume levels: PVs, VGs, LVs, and it also shows file system filling levels. It uses AJAX to generate the graphs one by one and also supports LVM snapshots. You can try it live here and read about it here.

why is everybody and their dog ranting about Gnome 3? When Fedora 15 came out, sporting the new Gnome 3 desktop, I just tried it. I had been using Gnome 2 before. I performed the upgrade and I loved it from minute one. It is clean, intuitive, and, with the right shell extensions, has exactly the functionality I need from a desktop environment. Maybe y'all just hate it because it's new?

I missed you!

6 days of snow fun

Awesome road trip from Houston to San Francisco. Thanks to all my friends who hosted us.

A bit on the long side...

Nice tour in late October

Via Ferrata to Graustock - Andreas has more

160x40 cm² acrylic dibond print of my Mono Lake panorama

left and right of beautiful Tösstal

nice nice

to meet my man Steffen at the Bergrennen Oberhallau

two very nice tours: Sat and Sun

playing with Magic Lantern and Zerene Stacker (also the red spheres on page 2)

hiking in Liechtenstein: 3 Schwestern

Tipitina!!

to Bälmeten

Pix from my last trip to NV, UT and AZ

I christen you Seahawk II

fun fun

playing with my new Samsung Galaxy S II

Sali to Braunwald

in case you're using a PC Engines ALIX board as a router, you might be interested in using its 3 LEDs to monitor network traffic. For that purpose I wrote a small C program. Read more.

World IPv6 day

whose picture I took - please drop me a line so I can send you the file!

I no has it. And you should see my forearms. The tour was cool though

daduke.org can now be reached by IPv6.

it's here!

MACEO!!!

Reussuferweg between Bremgarten and Mellingen

lots of it, in fact

Superb acrylic-on-dibond quality.

thanks to Lensmate, I now have a CPL on my S95.

using a SmaTrig2 in light barrier mode, a laser diode, a Nissin Di866 and my Canon 550D in bulb mode I shot this ball falling down - now on to more exciting motifs

and a good one at that

side effects may include busyness and overlapping items

Combined with my Tokina 11-16 the retro adapter provides some interesting insight.

The Felsenweg between Höchenschwand and Nöggenschwiel is by far the coolest single trail I've ever seen

'Autumn Leaves' edition

with new cam + lenses

Some notes on lens performance

Tour to lovely Mandach

Visiting the Höllbach-Wasserfälle

Andreas has more

It had me intimidated for too long.

Another amazing Black Forest tour full of single trails

Due to amazing amounts of snow, the planned roundtrip had to be canceled.

It started out really foggy but later got very nice.

Exploring all the exciting new possibilities...

Narrowly escaped a massive thunderstorm

Hike to Pilatus

3rd camera in 2 years - the last two got stolen. Now I got myself a nice DSLR.

Movies, pannable panoramas and GPS tracks are now included in the slide shows. An example is this gallery from California. Now my octo-core Thinkpad W510 is busy encoding all remaining galleries.

Let us draw the curtain of silence over the previous 3 weeks.

Taking MTBing to the next level

2 tours: 74 and 106 km

Back from a 4-day leadership workshop on Schloss Freudenfels

Easter weather was halfway decent this year.

Small facelift of this website. Hope y'all like it.

Three amazing weeks on Maui

Oh, and that's centigrade...

New pannable panoramas

Fun.

I just had to..

Bought a polarization filter for my SX1 IS. The improvement is pretty amazing.

Can you spot Zindlenspitz?

Wägitalersee to Zindlenspitz

two more

An awesome bike just got awesomer. If you also want bar end mirrors for your bike, Jack is the man to talk to.

pics are here

if you can only go on one MTB tour in your life, this one has it all: breathtaking vistas, amazing downhill trails, challenging climbs, you name it. Grab the GPX data and get going!

Last weekend's tours

I was not aware of the amount of fun one can have on one mountain bike.

That's what you get if you try to mess with my motorcycle.

Kleine Feierabendtour zum Ausrollen

California 2009, 'Luggage Theft' edition

Not too shabby either

Yosemite sneak preview

Random CA updates on http://twitter.com/daduke

16 cores with 128 gigs of RAM are pretty compact nowadays.

The last of several wonderful tours during Easter vacation.

First tour with the new wheels

XC ski tour to Feldberg

I admit it. Winter does have its beautiful sides.

Discovered cross-country skiing to get me at least some sun while waiting for summer.

Due to a lying weather forecast and massive amounts of snow, we had to cut back our hiking plans big time. Little sun, but a spectacular view.

A smile machine if there ever was one.

Escaping Zurich autumn fog

Linux user + wefunkradio fan = WEFUNK Gnome tray widget.

Microsoft once again decided to adhere to accepted standards when storing data in their Active Directory LDAP database. NOT. Read here to learn what they came up with.

Just 40 km from Zurich there's amazing Sternenberg. It's one helluva fun on the motorbike, but the beauty only shows properly on the bicycle.

Pictures from my trip to the Southwestern USA in June.

A handy PERL script to generate HDR panoramas from a bunch of images.

Relaxing two weeks in France.

This server is now running as a Xen domain on a root server at Hetzner.

Check this out if you got a Java capable browser.

I hereby declare the 2008 season officially open.

Swiss Alps as seen from my apartment in Zurich.

Carved a pumpkin with Jana.

Motorcycle tour and hiking with (again) friends near Amden

MTBing, Canyoning and Rafting in Tyrol

Beautiful California

Massachusetts and New Hampshire

From Urnerboden to the Claridengletscher. More details in Andrea's blog.

It's +41 76 571 71 05 now. Please update your phone book.

Got myself a Ph.D.

This city rocks.

Motorcycle tour in the Swiss Alps.

Schloss Hohenzollern near Hechingen.

Spent 5 wonderful days in this beautiful city.

EstivalJazz Lugano + George Clinton = Party till the cows come home.

Mountain biking to the fullest

Christo at ETH?

5 very nice days in sunny Liguria, Italy.

I decided to diversify my biking experience

I scanned 350+ slides from a trip to Asia back in '96.

April 5, for Christ's sake!!

with the great work of Martin and the fine folks at Debian it is now possible to run a complete Debian on your NSLU2

yep, the date is 4th of March

what a wonderful day in the middle of October

playing with the world's smallest Linux computer

high voltage and water just don't get along

George Clinton played in the Kaufleuten. 4 hours in a row. Without break. Hottest live act I've ever seen.

that computers get those numbers right

.. what would we do without people who know things?

Cute otters in the zoo

today everything on d.o moved to a new machine, running Debian sarge on a RAID5.

.. on a lovely day

There goes my old hardware

apart from the XHTML you're looking at and the RSS feed, we now also generate a PDF version of this blog (using FOP).

for some stupid reason, I installed IE 6.0 under wine on my Linux machine. Then I used it to have a look at my website. All validated XHTML and CSS, clean and simple. Now check what this pathetic shitty bastard made with my layout. How can 90% of all people use this bullshit?

finally. Laser cut stainless steel and all.

installed an upgrade

Windows for Supercomputers is coming.

you learn best while you're young

they're called Endler's Guppys

The flying top

Mama's got a brand new car

The Gig Jazz Bar, Zurich

seen in the Bistro at ETH Hönggerberg.

Blog entries directly from my cell phone!

watch her doing stuff in her tank

due to the beauty of XSLT, we have a RSS feed of this blog now

this XHTML blog is now generated from XML with the help of XSLT.

.. when you want to display the timetable. (sorry, phone cam)

meet Frau Schröder.

in case you're still using IE

pictures from the Street Parade and the I'm a movie star party with Christine and Alexander

on my Linux page you will find a program that lets you create birthday calendar entries in Evolution

this time at 28'000 ft.

a lot nicer than the old one.

very nice place indeed.

what a beauty.

if some things on this website look strange to you (like CSS, transparent PNGs or the scroll behaviour), you should stop using IE (which you should do for any other reason anyway) and switch to a real browser.

today we performed MPI speed tests on Xbox Linux.

this is how the craftsmen signed the big modification our house is currently undergoing. 'Murks' means 'botch'.

rearranged the pix section and added the Paris images.

next week I will be in Paris for a conference and some vacation...

view daduke.org in different themes! Use the style switcher in the navigation bar to choose between white and blue!

big redesign of d.o - I hope you like it. It's all validated XHTML 1.0 now, a lot cleaner than the old one.

learn how to tremendously improve the wow factor of this lamp...

this is how your Windows box looks like after you have forgotten to patch it for 3 days..

forget gcc, vim and all that crap. Get yourself a real compiler.

just came back from a summer school for Quantum Electronics in Erice, Sicily. Lotsa fun.

this one's a Skagen.

I repaired my ex-server mobo which had died earlier this year. Working like a charm again.

Beowulf Xbox Linux cluster anyone?

seen at 6:30 am

yes, you can do something useful with your Apple mouse after you have bought a real one for your Mac.

with 256M, it is just right to be taken everywhere. I wrote this bash script to recode my MP3s from 160k to 96k for this player.

Liquid nitrogen ice cream.

I have no case yet and the μC software still has a bug or two, but the PCB should be ok. So start soldering on the project page.

... kinda.

ok, I also think they're quite funny, but some people overdo...

Burnout 2 for Xbox.

now we just need some sun :)

those sukkers killed my server.

no comment.

on sat my new server died. Just froze or rebooted. After buying a new Shuttle board and a 1.7 Celeron, I examined the old board. Apparently it suffered from a known problem: shitty capacitors spill their electrolyte all over the place. Not a good idea in a server. Check out the mess they made on the pictures.

I replaced my HP618 with the wonderful Pentax Optio S. Now this is an amazing piece of technology.

all my domains moved to a new server. The old 486/66 has served me well in the last 4 years, but now it's time for a Celeron/800, 512M, RAID1, and latest RH8.

In the last days I built a nixie clock. Radio controlled and all. As soon as everything is finished (case, software..), I will provide schematics, the PCB layout and the microcontroller software.

this one is from Nathalie Philipp

my first watch, the wonderful Tangente made by Nomos

painted by Hildegard Hahn

and you thought modding was for lamers only...

it's amazing how much network hardware two ppl need.. and that's not even all..

we just got a wireless access point for our appartment. Web surfing in the garden, here I come...

I just moved in to Anthony's apartment. Now we're wiring it, 2 ethernet cables to every room (including kitchen), the projector and the dolby digital system go to the living room. Now we only have to find the time to watch any of the 438 TV channels the DVB receiver offers...
oh yes, and 2 Mbit on the desktop are nice, too. Thanks Anthony ;-)

I'm now back to Zurich and ETH, and I'm really excited about all the stuff we're gonna do in the next months.

Today I tried fli4l, a great one-disk linux firewall solution. Take an old 486, strip out everything except floppy drive, network card and isdn (or DSL) card, edit 4 config files, boot from the floppy disk and you have a nice firewall.

Starting April 1st, I will work in Günter's nonlinear optics group at ETH towards my PhD degree. It's about circular optical microresonators for smaller and faster optical switches and filters.

So they've really done it. We have the Euro. Apparently my job at Commerzbank has not been that bad as they're still alive. Only minor problems throughout Europe. Greatest currency conversion of all times. Wow!

Today I'm leaving Frankfurt. The project at Commerzbank is over. I really enjoyed the last 9 months and earned myself quite some money. Berger Strasse, I'll miss you.

My vacation is over. Yeah, it's only been one week, but I liked it a lot. If you ever happen to be around, be sure to visit Amrum, a nice little island south of Sylt with beaches like in the Carribean. See the pix section for details...

I will be on vacation until 30.07.01. As all good last-minute offers are already gone, I will spend one week in Husum, North Sea. Prepare for some pictures when I'm back!

DADUKE dot ORG goes online!
The new layout is finished and going online today. Hope y'all like it...

Today I visited the LinuxTag in Stuttgart. Apart from all the booths, I attended ESR's talk on the Open Source community and CmdrTaco's keynote. Very phunny both of them...

Last week, I finished my studies at ETH Zurich. I now proudly call myself Dipl. Phys. ETH! Without any time to get bored, I already started my new job today: I am working as an IT consultant for Commerzbank in Frankfurt. We are doing source code analysis and are trying to squeeze out all bugs in the transition from DEM to EUR.