Raumpflege

Sollte jemand sich in Berlin mit dem Gedanken tragen, das Unternehmen "Bärliner Putzteufel" beauftragen zu wollen, so seid gewarnt: Die Leistungsbereitschaft der Mitarbeiter ist gering, aber im Stellen hoher Rechnungen...

Postbank saugt

Ich bin Business-Kunde bei der Postbank, und auf meiner letzten Monatsabrechnung fand ich einen Posten "Zinsen und Gebühren" in Höhe von 66 Euro. Ich dachte mir: "Das ist ja viel", und schrieb eine (autorisierte und so...

Quicklisp - The upcoming solution to Common Lisp's "library problem"

We're all tired of hearing that Common Lisp is all nice, but it has a library problem. True, many of the open source libraries written in Common Lisp are half-baked, incomplete, unmaintained and tasteless. But...

By all means, choose a distinct name for your program

"I love screen". "screen?", you ask, "do you love your screen or screen in general, like in sun screen?". And right you are, screen is not a name, it is not even a very distinctive noun as it is so ambiguous. So, when...

How to convert your old-style Symbolics keyboard to USB

Peter got in touch with me because he tried to follow my instructions how to convert a Symbolics keyboard to USB with his old-style keyboard and he failed. He assumed, and that was what I would have assumed, that the color...

Embracing the ARM

Last year, I worked on a project for visomat inc. which involved interfacing to a LED matrix display so that it could display some video. We had some latency problems and at one stage we decided to try out DMX...

Hacking a USB Infrared receiver

Our living room Hi-Fi setup needs a MP3 player that is always available, easy to use and, first and foremost, allows us to import all the CDs that we have easily and without effort. I've always wanted to do that...

Clojure Slides from February Berlin Lispers Meetup

Stefan Richter, our speaker at the February Berlin Lispers Meetup, has made the slides of his presentation available on line. Enjoy, and see you next wee...

Telekom VDSL mit FreeBSD

Da ich meinen DSL-Anschluß im Büro mit ein paar anderen Freelancern teile, habe ich kürzlich von vorher Congster ADSL zu Telekom VDSL-25 gewechselt. Als Router verwende ich nun einen Rechner mit FreeBSD-7.2, der VDSL-Anschluß...

Max for Live, Java, MIDI, Windows and Sysex

Recently, I have spent some of my free time hacking some Java to provide Max for Live patchers direct access to the MIDI ports of my machine. Usually, one would be restricted to the MIDI data that Live has previously processed,...