17.06.05
Funksignal
"To understand the real world faced by a 2.4-GHz wireless signal, try to imagine that you are a wireless signal. You are five inches long, and you are about to Start on a 20-mile journey. Your journey will take you from an antenna on the roof of a ski lodge at the top of a 10,000-foot mountain down to an antenna on the roof of an office building. The office building is located 35 miles away, in the middle of a city in the desert at sea level. Your mission is to carry and to deliver a big (and important) data packet to a Computer inside the office building.
You are handed the data packet; then some powerful but invisible force roughly pushes you up to the antenna on the roof. As you reach the roof, the antenna suddenly spins your body around toward the city. The giant unseen force slams you out of the antenna and into the air. You feel strong, but you can't see the city and you have no way of steering yourself. Snow is falling, and you're freezing; the trees below you are covered in white. You hug the data packet tightly against your body. You know you are only five-inches long, but you can feel your chest slowly puffing out; you are expanding. You're getting wider and your skin is getting thinner. You feel yourself brush against the icy snow-covered treetops and some of your strength leaves you. You hug your data packet tighter as you fall. Down, down, down—your body keeps expanding, but now, as you expand, you feel the moisture in the icy air start to bend and warp you. You don't remember ever feeling this cold and swollen. You're weaker. Your chest is so big that you feel like you're about to burst. You suck in a breath but this time you don't feel that familiar icy pain in your nose. Have you gone numb? Then you realize that the air may be getting warmer. The foothills are below you. The snow is gone, but your body is now so big and so thin that it bumps against some of the foothills. You don't have much strength left and now it's getting hot. You grip the data packet as the hot, dry air starts to bend your body and wave you around. You see the city buildings ahead getting closer, taller. The end of your journey is there, somewhere, in that huge mass of steel, concrete, and glass. Closer, closer, your data packet is starting to slip away. You're so thin, so weak. The buildings are hitting you, bouncing you around. There's a roaring in your ears; hundreds of other Signals are surrounding you, bumping, shoving, pushing. Your antenna is just ahead, but all of your energy is gone. The packet... the packet.... The antenna is reaching for you.... Almost there.... Almost... there.... In the rooftop Cafeteria, a worker suddenly zaps a microwave oven on. Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!"
Geklaut bei 
Gwendolyn, Original von dem Buch "Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks"
Posted by Benni at 20:44 | Comments (0)
05.04.05
A bit of history
Was man nicht so alles im Internet findet, auch wenn mans garnicht sucht :
Operation Big was a part of the overarching Allied effort (called Operation Alsos) to capture German nuclear secrets during the final days of World War II.
In this portion of the operation, nuclear intelligence teams moved quickly from Freudenstadt through Horb to Haigerloch in southwest Germany. Troops taking part in this operation (dubbed "Task Force A") captured a German atomic pile at Haigerloch that only needed additional heavy water to become operational.
Nearby at Hechtingen they uncovered the heavy water plant shipped from Norway after the Operation Freshman and Operation Gunnerside attacks.
The operation was conducted in April 1945.
Auch interessant :
Informationen über Freudenstadt
"The district is located in the middle part of the Black Forest mountains. The river Neckar flows through the southeast of the district"
Posted by Benni at 21:23 | Comments (0)
31.03.05
Ihr wacht auf - und seid tot...
... so beginnt unsere Vampire-Runde meistens. Das sind die Abende, an denen wir Nächtelang durch die Gegend strolchen und andere Leute aussaugen oder Schlimmeres. Klingt komisch, ist aber so. Rollenspiel ist das Stichwort des Abends.
Wir spielen eher seltener Vampire - Die Maskerade. Aber neulich haben wir wieder, und was soll ich sagen... es war blutig :D
Unsere aktuelle Aufgabe ist es, einen Sarkophag mit den Gebeinen des heiligen Sankt Nikolaus zurück zu bringen - weil der wurde gestohlen, geraubt und geklaut. Als Vampir (Oder Vampyr, wie man es richtig schreibt :P) hat man so einige Nach(t)teile und Vorteile. Immer nur in der Nacht unterwegs zu sein ist schon etwas traurig. Dafür ist man stark wie ein Ochse, das Risiko vernichtet zu werden ist nicht sooo groß, wenn man sich an die Spielregeln hält (Vor allem die Maskerade : Zeige nie einem Menschen, dass du ein Vampyr bist). Bricht man die Maskerade hat man doch recht schnell Vampyrjäger an den Hacken. Und am Osttor aufzuwachen (in festgenageltem Zustand bei Sonnenaufgang) ist nicht so toll...
Viel öfter spielen wir DSA (Das Schwarze Auge) und durchstreifen abenteuerhungrig Aventurien. Als Elb, Zwerg oder Mensch pilgern wir dem Reichtum entgegen. Ich spiele im Moment eine auelbische Heilerin, einen menschlichen Magier, mehrere Zwerge und einen waldelbischen Schwarzmagier. Abwechslung und Spass muss sein :)
Posted by Benni at 01:59 | Comments (0)
18.01.05
Volksverdummung
"Monikas Vater hat 5 Töchter :
Lele, Lala, Lolo, Lulu.
Wie heisst die 5. Tochter?"
So gesehen grad in der RTL-Quiz Night. 1000 Euro gibts da für die richtige Antwort. Der erste Anrufer hatte die Lösung "Lili".
Ich hör' schon Türme fallen. Naja, was is auch um die Zeit der Fernseher an.
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