Entries from Stephan Paukner

Ich kenne eine ländliche Gegend, in der es 16jährigen im Alter von 12 bis 32 Jahren offenbar sowohl schwer fällt dort zu leben als auch sie zu verlassen oder zumindest auf eigenen Beinen zu stehen. Es ist dort so langweilig oder deprimierend oder was auch immer, dass die wichtigste soziale Interaktion für diese Jugendlichen der wöchentliche Vollrausch ist. Den Mittelpunkt dieses Treffens stellt dabei eine überregional bekannte Spelunken-Disko mit einem recht großen Einzugsbereich dar.

There is an epidemic going around in Austria these days which can be described as “put your car seats a life vest on”. As since May 2005 it is compulsory in Austria to wear signal vests on highways and country roads, it is recommended to keep them in the passenger compartment of your car. But many people don’t want to keep them below the front seats or elsewhere, no, they properly put them their seats on to tell everybody, “Hey, I’m so good, see how I do have signal vests in my car!”

I don’t give much about the look of my own car, I admit that I don’t keep it well, but since so many people do care so much about the appearance of their cars I can’t really understand why they don’t see a disturbance in their “radioactively” yellow car seats.

Well, “last exam” doesn’t mean the final master exam, which comes after the Master Thesis, but it was the last step to take before I could have my head clear for the Big Last Step.

Mr. Teschl graded me “Sehr gut” (i.e. an “A”) on Ordinary Differential Equations, which is another proof for the theory that the understanding for a certain subject is very dependent on the teaching person (or his script, heh).

First of all I will enjoy my two weeks of holiday, and after that I want to decide what direction to take for my thesis. I will meet with Thomas in the mid of August to have a look at Applied Matching Pursuit, and after that with HGFei to get an idea about the second possible topic. I want to get into the status of an graduand officially within August - for this, I will have to hand in all my report cards and to disclose the topic of my thesis.

If RCS is used separately from CVS (e.g. for system configuration management), I sometimes want to know whether there are any uncommitted changes pending. Here’s my bash alias to get an overview:

Maybe you want rcsdiff to be an alias for a home-made rcscolordiff, which itself simply calls

rcsdiff $@ | colordiff --no-banner.

Immer mehr Nordic Walker unterwegs

Da ich Anfang August in Tirol urlauben und dabei ein pauschales Aktiv-Package einlösen werde, bei dem u.a. auch eine Nordic Walking-Einführung inkludiert ist, muss ich streng darauf achten alles richtig zu machen und die bösen Trendläufer verächtlich anblicken.

Due to Thomas being busy this week, our meeting has been delayed until next week.

I will ask Mr. Teschl for a date of my last exam next week, as he will return from his research travel tomorrow. I really want it to be done by the end of July, as I will be on holidays for the first two weeks of August.

Eben genau “geschlechts-spezifisch”! Der Konsens ist nämlich, Begriffe wie Leser, Studenten, Terroristen, Lehrer, Schüler, Pensionisten geschlechtsneutral aufzufassen, erst durch Verwendung des “Binnen-I” (steht’s schon im Duden?) wird explizit zwischen Mann und Frau unterschieden, womit sich gleich auch mal ein Problem mit solchen Personen ergibt, welche physisch und/oder psychisch dazwischen stehen.

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