Watched the terrific movie Branded to Kill (1967, 'Koroshi no rakuin', directed by Seijun Suzuki) in Das Kino and, wow, I could recognize one hiragana character, ka.

posted at: 14:24 | path: /fun/japanese | permanent link

Photos can be found at pmeerw.net, the last entry is from a hike to Werfner Hütte.

posted at: 14:19 | path: /fun | permanent link

The runtime library of the VC8 C/C++ compiler which comes with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 checks if certain symbols reside in read-only sections.
Affected are __dyn_init_tls_callback and certain symbols used to initialize the floating point code (eg. printf("%f", ...) will mysteriously fail with code R6002 if the runtime is not properly set up).
Workaround can be found in UPX and also SecuROM now :)

posted at: 14:15 | path: /rant | permanent link

2nd place for ->/_ Team Salzburg in the BOWS-2 watermarking competition, 1.5 dB after Andreas Westfeld but also 1 dB before the 3rd place.
Episode 2 is on...

posted at: 14:08 | path: /academic | permanent link