mastering the master

exam season in hagenberg

2008-01-25T16:55:00.000-08:00

The probably most hated time a year for students are this few weeks where they actually have to learn ;) because of their exams...

Allthough I didn't have a lot of them this semester they weren't any less annoying. For some of us (including me) staying up all night before and exam became kind of a tradition. One might imagine we would get older and wiser and dump this habit ... but .... nope. We still procrastinated until learning became absolutely inescapable and then used what was left of the night to prepare for the oncoming exams.

How do people look after pulling an all-nighter? This is how ;)

and this is how my colleague Roland (aka. Roll) looks after the exam:

Looks pretty down, but trust me he looked worse... ;)

Coffee sessions

2008-01-06T18:54:00.000-08:00

One of the regular events in the Hagenberger dorm "Müllerheim" are the so called coffee sessions (aka k-fe session, session, "gemma gach auf an k-fe"-session ;) )....

The closer the exams come, the more frequent we meet downstairs at the "doorman" for a cup of coffee or two and enjoy doing nothing productive at all... Usually they take place between 11pm and 3am, although there have been a few at times when "normal" people are getting up again ;)

Here are some photos from our latest session (~10 people, 11 pm until 1 am)

Projects Mobile Computing 2007/2008

2008-01-01T20:19:00.000-08:00

These are some of the projects I've attended during the winter semester 2008:

Construction Site Safety
MEarth:
Mearth is a little application which allows the integration of map visualisation on mobile devices running windows mobile. It was developed as a projects for the course "Mobile Betriebssysteme" within the master course from "Mobile Computing" at the University of applied Sciences Hagenberg.
automatic access point login (Symbian S60)
seriesmanager (private)
windows service that automatically downloads ;), sort and rename the series file server (60 series, 1,4 TB)

my dorm room in hagenberg

2008-01-01T18:56:00.001-08:00

Since I started the degree program "Mobile Computing" at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg. I lived at the dorm. This is how my room looks:

The room itself costs about 280 € a month and currently contains the following equipment

workstation

Athlon 64 3500
2 GB Ram
~600 GB storage
20" Samsung Syncmaster
19" Samsung Syncmaster
Microsoft Ergonomical Keyboard 4000
Logitech Mx518

laptop

Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M1425
Centrino

server

Athlon64 4000+
2 GB Ram
~2 TB storage
Canon Pixma MP600R

and of course my beloved coffee machine, a Melitta MyCup ;)