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EURO2008 – Handy Guide

17 days until the start of the UEFA EURO 2008 in Austria and Switzerland. And time to get you ready! The easiest way to stay informed and up-to-date on the biggest football event this year is Swisscom’s EURO 2008 Guide for your mobile phone. All the latest news on the teams and the players. Results, […]

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Google Treasure Hunt 2008 – My Solutions

If you are [ ] a Google Fanboy [ ] a Computer Science Student [ ] a geek [ ] going to school with me you have probably heard of this year’s Google Treasure Hunt, a “a puzzle contest designed to test your problem-solving skills in computer science, networking, and low-level UNIX trivia”. The hunt […]

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SwissEurobot 2008 – Rapperswil

Today marks the first day of this years SwissEurobot. This time the мебелиcompetition is being held in Rapperswil and organized by the University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil. Teams from almost any part of Switzerland are fighting against each other to qualify as one of three teams to the European finals. In every round two teams […]

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Fun With The Command Line

Type in the following commands and have a good time: !! | !! echo “He says:\”Hello World!\”” and stranger: echo “He says:\”Hello World\!\”” echo !! echo !!!! echo “He says:\”Hello World!\”” And another one: echo “;expr 1 + 1;echo ” echo “!!” expr 1 + 1 can be any command (like wget, sftp, reboot …) […]

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