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Heads Up
Posted April 3rd, 2008 by ch3kaAs I got very much response (via IM) to my first Poker-related post in this blog, and some thought I played bad, I want to review the two str8flush-situations.
Don't worry, I wont post every hand I play here in this blog now, but I will post some poker issues in the future. Maybe I'll fork a sub-blog, we'll see.
I like Heads-up games. You have to play very loose, and you have to fight.
Plus, I get bored after playing 8h in a big tournament; Heads-Up SNGs are kinda like a warp zone to the boss enemy in a tournament ;)
Suited Connectors FTW!
Posted April 2nd, 2008 by ch3kaThe probability of hitting a straight flush in Texas Hold'em Poker is 0,02785%, the probability of flopping this monster is only 0,0015%.
In many thousands hands I played, I got some quads and some str8flush-draws, but have not seen a str8flush or even had one by myself.
The probability of getting quads is 0,168% BTW - compare that to the probability for getting a str8flush and aks urself how often u had quads in your life...
MeFaSteDo - Help google!
Posted March 20th, 2008 by ch3kaYour search - MeFaSteDo - did not match any documents.
Well, MeFaSteDo is a german hackers acronym for the german word "MehrFachSteckDose" (english "Gangplug" or just "Power Strip").
If you're speakin german and do not trust me, see here or here for convenience.
Hostname wanted
Posted March 11th, 2008 by ch3kaMy new Thinkpad (a R60e) is beggin to be named.
Its antecessor's name was "bihatsch" - a term r-nel often used at work. The day I got the laptop we founded "The Bitch club" - so it was almost clear what name the T40 would get.
But which name would fit for the R60e?
Its thicker, heavier, and bigger.
And more vulnerable - bihatsch had a skin of steel (yeah, i know, not exactly steel...), the R60 only has painted plastic.
Dualboot on a Thinkpad leaving rescue system intact
Posted March 11th, 2008 by ch3kaFinally - my new Thinkpad arrived today.
I'll post a detailed overview of the R60e - especially in compare to my old T40 - later.
First, lets get a real OS running (its really weird seeing a Thinkpad running Windows, I never did before).
First thing I did was gettin rid of those M$-Propaganda-Stickers - no problem here, I simply used some soap and a sponge.
RIP Thinkpad / Mount partition of whole-disk-dd-image
Posted March 5th, 2008 by ch3kaMy IBM Thinkpad T41 is no more.
I don't like Passwords, so I use cryptographic Certificates. They are all stored on the Thinkpads HDD, along with all my Mails and Stuff, so I'm pretty much separated from the outside world since the Laptop died last Friday.
Sure I do have backups, but they were 200km away from me (or i was 200km away from my filer, spoken correctly) and they were 12h old. So I headed back home and connected the Laptops HDD to my Workstation via USB and dumped the HDD contents via dd:
dd if=/dev/sdh | split -db2024m thinkpad.dd.iso.
CaCert - I'm an assurer now!
Posted February 29th, 2008 by ch3kaThanks to the spontaneously called CaCert-Signing yesterday at the CCCHD weekly meeting, i now have 112 pts which means that I can assure other people.
All 20 forms I prited were used - next time I'll print more.
The timing is perfect: yesterday my gpg-key expired.
The new one will get a CaCert-Signing.
You can find it on the common keyservers (I use pgpkeys.mit.edu) or you use this:
1024D/F9F86895 2008-02-29 [expires: 2009-02-28]
IPv6 Namespace and Favicons
Posted February 28th, 2008 by ch3kaAs you might have noticed when you are not only reading my brainejaculations via RSS, I have a favicon.
A Favicon is a 16x16 or 32x32 px-Graphic in the .ico-Format (MIME-Type image/vnd.microsoft.icon) specified by Microsoft.
This Format allows 4, 8, 16 and 24 bit color depth, however, in favicons only 4 or 8 bit are used for compatibility reasons.
So we can assume that a favicon can be described via 32x32x8 == 8192 bits. So we can create 2^8192 different favicons. Sounds good.
Even when we assume 16x16x4 == 1024, we will have 2^1024 different favicons to create.
All Software suxx
Posted February 27th, 2008 by ch3kaPeter Kröner shows us why programming is that hard:
(blue: lines written ; green: ToDos ; purple: overview)
Combined with this fact:
We finally understand why Computers are never working as they should.
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