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So, i recently got a Linksys WRT54GL-DE v1.1. What was the first the thing for me to do? Of course i flashed the firmware with the most recent version of DD WRT. Why DD WRT and not some other wrt, like OpenWRT? Well, the device should just work, as it is for my home (as in parents-home) network. I have to say im quite impressed by DD WRT, its a real nice piece of software. There is one tiny thing i havent figured out yet though. Imagine the following scenario: I want to use the WRT as router for my wired and wireless network, as an access point as well. I have my dsl modem somewhere in my network, connected to a switch. I want to connect the WRT with only one cable to the whole wired network, this means it should use this one link for the local network connectivity as well as for dialup. No, dont tell me it doesnt work, i used this setup for years with my software routers ;)

Google, everbody’s darling these days, has released a few really good and a few rather nasty web products (i especially distaste the whole GMail-Crap, its intrusive, its unsecure, it does not have that many features. Just get an IMAP-Account somewhere and use whatever client you wish, and don’t have your emails scanned and indexed…).

Google Scholar is something cool and more than useful for a change. It is a search engine for scientific papers, articles, books. Of course it uses the same smart search algorithms Google Web uses, but it does have some additional nice features. First of all you can click a link below an article and Google displays a ready-to-copy-n-paste BiBTex-entry. If the article is available free of charge it links directly to a PDF or the download site. If it is not you can try to search the web, sometimes this really brings up freely available files. In the course of my Proseminar i have to write an article about a paper published back in 1982 in the IEEE Transactions on Computers. Now, its been quite some time since 1982, and you can imagine that I am not the first one referencing this article. Google Scholar shows how many other works in its search engine have cited the paper you searched for, which is interesting because this way you can quickly browse how a certain topic has developed over time.

Why use it when there are search engines like CiteSeer, and the ones provided by IEEE and ACM? Well, first of all Google’s library is pretty big, and its so much more easier to use. The interface is the one you are already accustomed to, which means very minimalistic and clear.

Well, try it yourself!

Hammer Bus. Heute auf dem Weg von Vaals nach AC, mit viel zu viel Kaffee und Dosenbier auf dem Rücksitz ;).

Meine Umlaute unter xorg funktionieren wieder. Yeah. Nun muss ich mir nur noch angewöhnen in deutschen Texten auch wirklich welche zu benutzen (das mit der Kommasetzung ist auch noch “suboptimal”). Egal. Wie ich das ans laufen gekriegt hab war eigentlich sehr einfach. In der ~/.Xmodmap einfach folgendes eintragen:

`Meine Umlaute unter xorg funktionieren wieder. Yeah. Nun muss ich mir nur noch angewöhnen in deutschen Texten auch wirklich welche zu benutzen (das mit der Kommasetzung ist auch noch “suboptimal”). Egal. Wie ich das ans laufen gekriegt hab war eigentlich sehr einfach. In der ~/.Xmodmap einfach folgendes eintragen:

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Danach evtl. noch mit xmodmap .Xmodmap aufrufen und es sollte gehen. Die Umlaute lassen sich dann mit AltGr-{U,O,A,S} schreiben, und die anderen Zeichen auch.