From the manual of the game Sam & Max Season One: speakers are input devices? And Germans apparently can insert the DVD ROM into a CD-ROM drive…
Little calculation imprecision of 53%
Update: Im Excel-Team-Blog wurde eine kleine Erklärung veröffentlicht (englisch), es beträfe “nur” die Anzeige, nicht das zwischengespeicherte Ergebnis. Dumm also “nur” für die, die auch mal Werte anzeigen lassen und nicht nur damit rechnen…
Update 2: Ein Hotfix ist mittlerweile verfügbar.
Microsoft Excel 2007, a spreadsheet calculation program for which the correctness of calculations is not quite unimportant, messes up some multiplications that should result in 65,535, e.g.
850 * 77.1 = 100,000
How it gets the idea to turn a result that has the lowest 16 bits (integer representation) all set to 1 into 100,000 (decimal) – and only with some pairs of numbers, not all – I have no idea. Maybe they wanted to hide another bug or flaw this way… anyway, that’s become a complete flop. They want to release a patch as soon as possible…
Maybe it was just a test to see if people are actually using Excel 2007 already and not stick with older versions (which probably many companies do)…?
(via Golem.de)
Update: The Excel Team Blog published a little explanation, according to which “only” the display is affected, not the stored result. So it’s “only” bad for those who have results displayed and don’t just calculate…
Update 2: A hotfix is now available.
The matching keyboard for the Oktoberfest
…a Cherry G83 with bavarian labeling like Pfüa God, Basd scho!, Grous, Fensterln, auffi, abbi in a squiggled font – seen yesterday in the window of Litec (had no camera with me, unfortunately); they have no photo on their shop website, but you can see it at pc-maeuse.de.
Music Robot
Okay, it’s apparently available for about a year, but I just read about it in the new issue of the Bild der Wissenschaft¹, and it was new to me: miuro, the iPod dock and WLAN client that can dance and follow his master!
Official site: miuro.com (Japanese)
Without further investigation: I suppose the name results from “music robot”, or rather the re-transfer of its pronunciation from Japanese to Latin letters.
Oh, and I should mention a little disadvantage: the price of about 1000 € (e.g. at arktis.de)…
¹ Strangely, they spell it “Miouru” – did they get that from a French source?
Assembly is…
What can be done with the Linux shell can also be done with x86 Assembly language – maybe a little less safe 
but with direct access^^ (note that “BH” is German for “bra”):
enter 0xCafe,0xC
not [0xbadFace]
monitor
lahf
lock leave
sysenter
push bh
test ah,0xDD
pop bh
lock enter 0xBed,2
into
call si
rep mov ah,0h
aaa
leave
sysexit
times 9 mwait
call 0xDad
Even when reading several times (hint!), even with the help that pops up when hovering over the dashed underlined items – probably no-one except me will understand that. But, well, I don’t care…. 