This week I received quite an expensive chocolate bar. I had set up a bet with one of my former colleagues at eQ-3 Entwicklung as regards team size counted as number of permanent staff by the end of the year. I had contended that growth would be below the optimistic three additional developers as part […]
Sometime this year I was clearing the pile of journals and magazines that had built up for months and years. I found an article by David Patterson on advising students. I liked it, and it can be found in the ACM digital library: Patterson, D. (2009). „Viewpoint: Your students are your legacy“. Communications of the […]
„Your most valuable resource is time – that is true even today.“ It was one of the days I attended a lecture on complexity theory held by Prof. Lengauer, and he reminded his audience of how important it was to use our time as students (and after graduation) wisely. Of course, wisely meant that we should […]
We in the security community tend to reach for hardware as the ultimate solution to securing systems against unwanted modification. Hardware cannot be manipulated by software. Back in the time when I was young, or, more precisely, back in the time before I even was young, computers were running one program at a time, and that […]
We use a software for employee self-service (ESS), e.g., for requesting remuneration of travel expenses at the college. It is web-based, allows to retrieve and modify personal information, and offers an interface to create and handle workflow items. Access to the system is protected, i.e., users have to authenticate themselves against the server. Authentication is done by […]
This month I had my first teaching opportunities in Gjøvik. Since I started in my new job after beginning of the academic year, I have no formal teaching obligation before next spring. Two weeks ago I got an SMS message while having breakfast. Nils called in sick and asked if I could jump in for […]
I finally got my removal goods to Norway. Technically, I got furniture and lots of boxes delivered to my house already two weeks ago. Legally, this should not have happened. When I selected a moving company to get my stuff from Germany to Norway some months ago, I chose one that claimed experience with removals […]