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Hi there! Thanks for visiting my site. My name is Tobias Hertkorn and I am working in Hamburg as a software developer. The blog will mainly focus on programming and such, since my life might be too boring for you to read about. Well, or at least I think you came here to learn about [...]

What can I tell you – I have been using git for a bit a while ago, and I really liked it … in a pure linux environment. It was a bit awkward when using windows. So I went back to subversion when doing my .NET development. But I really did miss the offline functionality [...]

I heard only the best things about the Windows 7 beta – so, with the RC being released I did set aside a bit of time to do my backups (which is breeze when using TrueImage), get the necessary drivers for my system, … Now a little more infos about my system: I have one [...]

Unfortunatelly today’s internet sites usually depend heavily on Macromedia Flash to “enhance” the experience. Therefore it was not too much fun working on my 64 bit Linux system the last couple of days, because the browser was displaying a lot of “please download plugin” signs and after a while they got on my nerves. Since [...]

I want to pipe stdout of a program to both a file to store the output of the program and to the console in order to be able to observe the progress of the program. Unfortunatelly bash does not allow splitting pipes out of the box. So I just hacked this little program in order [...]

Well, strictly for academic reasons I wanted to find out how fast the new Computing Cluster Server by Microsoft really is – I took the chance and installed it on my fresh and new Fujitsu-Siemens Celsius M. Yes, I got it today from my vendor – and thought, well before installing all of Linux and [...]

I am still a subscriber of the Debian Java mailing list. And on Tuesday a little, innocent email came over the mailing list: Tom Marble - Towards Java Libre. After that there was a bit of chit-chat, until reply email from Arnaud Vandyck. After that the thread is really taking off, inspiring very interesting posts [...]

As of .NET 2.0 there is a new class called StopWatch in System.Diagnostics. It is very easy to use. I just found it, while playing around with my Md5 optimization "project". For all of you that can't upgrade to Framework 2.0 yet - here is the implementation I used to time my md5 algos. It [...]

Well, I just watched Revolution OS. It is a documentation about Linux done in 2001. To quote form their website: REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software model and Microsoft to create GNU/Linux and the Open Source movement. I really liked the presentation, being a Linux user, [...]