New York, NY – September 3, 2010 – 2K Games and Gearbox Software announced today that forever is nearly here, as Duke Nukem Forever® will officially make its long-awaited debut for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC in calendar 2011. Duke Nukem, the interactive entertainment industry’s most irreverent and quoted character of all time, will bring his signature brand of babe-lovin’, cigar-smoking, beer-chugging and ass-kicking action as he once again saves the Earth and our babes from hordes of invading aliens. In other shocking news, Duke Nukem Forever will be playable right now for all attendees 17 and older of this year’s Penny Arcade Expo at the 2K Booth (booth #3417), giving the first hands-on experience with the game that was originally announced during the tail end of the Clinton Administration.

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For the whole setup I could mainly follow the installation guide on debian.org but some things just didn’t work out as expected. At least locally I now figured them out and the installation is working end-to-end
The main issue was to get the preseed.cfg to the client without having to alter the initrd. According to the manual (and tons of blogs), you just have to pass it as a kernel parameter. That’s just half of the truth. What’s missing in there is that you also have to send some more parameters right away so that the installation gets to the point where it loads the preseed.cfg (example). So if you ever have to set up something like that, don’t forget to pass in these parameters in your pxelinux.cfg/default:

append vga=normal initrd=debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz preseed/url=http://path/to/preseed.cfg debian-installer/locale=en_US console-keymaps-at/keymap=us netcfg/get_hostname=debian netcfg/get_domain=unassigned netcfg/choose_interface=eth1 -

(Don’t forget to check the interface in the last parameter. You can also skip it completely if you just have one network interface.)
My whole entry for the default Debian netinst looks like this now:

LABEL lenny
kernel debian-installer/i386/linux
append vga=normal initrd=debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz preseed/url=http://path/to/preseed.cfg debian-installer/locale=en_US console-keymaps-at/keymap=us netcfg/get_hostname=debian netcfg/get_domain=unassigned netcfg/choose_interface=eth1 -

This is enough for us right now because the cluster just has 5 machines so it’s easy to handle and we don’t intend to reinstall it that often. So there is no need for a bigger solution but if you have a big cluster with a lot of machines and you’re changing a lot of things all the time, you might want to take a look at FAI

And as the paper is in english, I guess this post should be as well:
A few months ago, I think it was in December, we submitted a paper to the EWME 2010. It got accepted and the EWME took place a few weeks ago. So the paper is now published and can be downloaded here

Abstract – Within the Master Project “Wireless Mobility” this project was offered to IT Master Students during the second and third term and ran approximately over ten months. The project team developed a demonstrator platform to export the display content from a consumer mobile phone to a larger remote display, e.g. installed in a car. The key requirement was the utilization of non-proprietary technical solutions. This constrain did not limit the scope to standardized solutions only, but proprietary solutions ought to be open source or somehow accessible for the interested community. One important goal of this project was the awareness of latest design constraints and challenges in the Embedded Systems and System on Chip (SoC) area through a Project Based Learning (PBL) strategy. In this context, the students developed personal design competence, including specification, design trade-offs, design for testability, analysis and verification, and realization.

Hey there, we got some good news for you

While you’ve been looking for new apps using the lastest version of appazaar, we baked a new version with a lot of improvements and integrated a lot of your feedback as well as our own ideas into it! And now, after a long time of testing, it is finally available in the Market

This is what the new mobile app looks like:

This are our changes in detail:
[..]

The complete post can be found here!

public static int wtf (String tag, String msg)
Since: API Level 8

What a Terrible Failure: Report a condition that should never happen. The error will always be logged at level ASSERT with the call stack. Depending on system configuration, a report may be added to the DropBoxManager and/or the process may be terminated immediately with an error dialog.
Parameters
tag Used to identify the source of a log message.
msg The message you would like logged.

When I first chose my own adventure, I didn’t know what working remotely from home was going to be like. I had never done it before. As programmers go, I’m fairly social. Which still means I’m a borderline sociopath by normal standards. All the same, I was worried that I’d go stir-crazy with no division between my work life and my home life.

Well, I haven’t gone stir-crazy yet. I think. But in building Stack Overflow, I have learned a few things about what it means to work remotely — at least when it comes to programming. Our current team encompasses 5 people, distributed all over the USA, along with the team in NYC.[..]

Article on CodingHorror.com

…and furthermore as kind of expected:
Adobe sieht die Zukunft bei Android – und beerdigt Flash-Compiler fürs iPhone

By the way, you might want to check out CabSense

Es ist schon ein paar Tage her, dass ich hier etwas gepostet habe, obwohl ich eigentlich wieder mehr posten wollte. Allerdings gibt es hier wirklich reichlich Ablenkung

Meine erste Arbeitswoche ist rum und mit Erstaunen musste ich feststellen, dass Karfreitag und Ostermontag hier keine Feiertage sind, ich also ganz normal arbeiten musste. Schlimm ist das aber nicht wirklich, denn bisher macht es richtig Spaß! Alle Kollegen sind nett und das erleichtert den Einstieg natürlich enorm, wobei mir das Arbeiten an einem Mac teilweise doch recht schwer fällt ^^ Mit meinem ersten kleinen Projekt war ich nach 3 Tagen fertig, habe somit die Feuertaufe gut überstanden und einiges an Lob für das Ergebnis bekommen. Ein rundum gelungener Einstieg also und ich hoffe, dass es so weitergeht
Seit Donnerstag bin ich jetzt in einem (bzw 3) Android-Projekt(en) und habe schon einiges lernen können, auch wenn ich großteils noch damit beschäftigt bin die komplette Architektur zu verstehen. Ich hoffe natürlich auch hier einige Beiträge zu einem sehr guten Ergebnis liefern zu können

Am Donnerstag war großer Releasetag, weshalb im Büro einiges los war. Einer der Chefs hat auf einer Konferenz (Where 2.0) das neuste Projekt CabSense vorgestellt und gleichzeitig landete es in den Marketstores von Android und Apple (iPhone & iPad). Die Nutzerzahlen bisher sind unglaublich und heute ist auch noch ein Artikel in der Druckausgabe der New York Times über das Projekt (online Version). Jetzt sind wir natürlich alle gespannt wie die Zahlen am Montag aussehen werden

Das Bild oben rechts ist übrigens ein Teil dessen, was ich sehe, wenn ich im Büro aus dem Fenster schaue. Genauer gesagt ist das die Skyline vom Financial District, also NYC Downtown Bei passender Gelegenheit nehme ich mal meine richtige Kamera mit und mache ein paar Bilder vom Sonnenuntergang und wie im Dunkeln aussieht. Vorweg kann ich aber schon mal sagen: es ist sehr beeindruckend

Übrigens habe ich mir jetzt auch einen Twitter-Account zugelegt, falls mir also jemand folgen möchte: http://twitter.com/moritzp82