Everyone with a DVB-T receiver knows that the tuner signal can get corrupted by the weather or in my case the bus which stops in front of the house I live in. Some DVB-T receivers display the tuner signal in an OSD of your TV. Since I’m using a DVB-T card in my PC with [...]
Hooray, it is world water week! Wait a minute… who cares? Certainly not my faucet in the kitchen which is trying to perform an acoustic variation of Chinese water torture on me every night. Maybe I’m too harsh and its intentions are to soothe me into sleep all the time with its rhythmic dripping-patterns which [...]
I’ve found an article called Optimal Play of the Dice Game Pig by Neller and Presser that discusses a variant of the dice game proposed by the Linux Magazin, the only difference is the winning score and that rolling a 1 leads to passing the die to your opponent instead of 6, so none of [...]
The German Linux-Magazin is sponsoring a programming contest for the following problem: Two players compete in a dice game, every player can roll a six sided die as often as he wishes. As long as no 6 is rolled the numbers are added up and the player can pass the die to the other one [...]