Gifts for computer scientists
Gift ideas for computer scientists
This is where creativity is at a premium for many people. ;) Unfortunately, it is becoming more and more common for people to need gifts that appeal to lovers of ones and zeros. Be it because relatives or friends are IT administrators, programmers or something else in the IT industry, or because SysAdmin Day is approaching - sometimes you just need something suitable for IT people. In our Geek Shop, IT people are some... Mehr anzeigen of our favorite customers and that is why we have a large selection of IT gadgets and other items that they are guaranteed to be happy about and that also make great gifts.Nobody likes to fix the mistakes another person has made due to incompetence, laziness or simply by accident. But when you yourself are that person...
View full detailsThis year's line-up of the Hacken Open Air is probably the best one ever: The headliners sudo's Priest and Gnutallica will set the Black Hat Stage ...
View full detailsIsn't it amazing what the human brain is capable of? Not only has it secured us our place at the top of the food chain, it can also adapt extremely...
View full detailsAs we all know, hindsight is 20/20. This universally applicable wisdom can also be used to describe informatics, especially debugging (i.e. testing...
View full detailsSometimes a simple card game is the best pastime. You know, those times when you're forced to de-digitise, or because of those slow university or w...
View full detailsImagine that you’ve just created a model that allows different technical systems to communicate with each other and that features different layers ...
View full detailsAs we all know, silent waters run deep. While software development does not exactly have anything to do with water, the basic principle of the sayi...
View full detailsAnyone who's even remotely interested in electronics and tinkering would probably take a bath in LEDs, batteries, transistors and other parts Scroo...
View full detailsWhat's the most popular answer to calls at the IT support hotline? Of course the sentence: "Have you tried turning it off and on again?&q...
View full detailsEven a computer scientist/genius/geek/nerd (delete as appropriate!) has to take a vacation every now and then. He/she leaves the familiar lab, offi...
View full detailsThis gadget should by no means be confused with ordinary status lights. No, blink(1) mk3 isn't just a flickering light on the edge of your keyboard...
View full detailsDo you spend a lot of time on your computer? Maybe even eating in front of it? Then you should think about the best way to clean your keyboard, bec...
View full detailsThe computer is on but the monitor stays black.Problem reports like that make IT guys and tech-savvy, helpful geeks like us just criiiinge, don...
View full detailsLayer 8 of the OSI model for network protocols is almost exclusively used in a joking manner to imply that most problems are not problems of the sy...
View full detailsRemember way back... when to be able to load programmes and games on a C64, you had to type in a special command first? For the sake of nostalgia, ...
View full detailsThe home of a real geek needs a geeky doormat. This one expresses the common feeling amongst geeks that their own home with their own computer is a...
View full detailsIf one were to believe the genre legends Run DMC, hip-hop really does have one thing in common with informatics: It's tricky! While the trio of Run...
View full detailsSo, you're looking for a really distinguished-looking watch for your wrist, right? But you find all those analogue watches just soooo boring? Maybe...
View full detailsThis product is only available in German.
If there is any profession entirely deserving of their own drinking song, it’s programmers.The so-called “Programmer’s Drinking Song”, a modificati...
View full details"Is your computer running low on disk space? Are old holiday pictures and text documents clogging your hard drive? Then simply put everything into ...
View full detailsBasically, programming has a lot in common with Lego: on the one hand, it's worth starting at a young age (keyword: practice makes perfect), and on...
View full detailsGiven that the binary system is widely used in IT (and thus in most parts of our lives), surprisingly few people actually understand the combinatio...
View full detailsDeath, War, Pestilence and Hunger - one does not need to be familiar with the works of Albrecht Dürer to recognize this unholy quartet: The Four Ho...
View full detailsYour external hard drive is droning and blinking even though it's in standby mode... Doh! Those USB gadgets can only be turned off by unpluggi...
View full detailsAhh, nothing beats a well-organized home, right? Everything exactly where it belongs, all the books organized by the astronomical sign of the autho...
View full detailsSomething you may not know is that computer scientists have to deal with all sorts of trees. Quite often, the most common being the so-called binar...
View full detailsFor those of you who have comments regarding a source code: It was hard to write - it was meant to be hard to understand..
Nobody likes to fix the mistakes another person has made due to incompetence, laziness or simply by accident. But when you yourself are that person...
View full detailsDid you know that you can make a lot of money with compression? And we’re not talking about the inventors of WinRAR (who are most likely still wait...
View full detailsCookies – those small text files stored on your computer – have been around for quite a while. But only since 2021 have we had to consent to their ...
View full detailsHave you ever thought about the proper way to drink coffee? Sure, you might think: "Pour coffee into the mug, lift the mug, drink, repeat as necess...
View full detailsThe good ol'’ floppy disk!How we loved you when you were our go-to portable, long-term memory solution. We shared so many happy years…!Not tha...
View full detailsAnyone who has ever worked in IT support will know what the following situation is like: "Can you help me? My computer crashed and I can't get to a...
View full detailsImagine arriving at the office, sitting down at your desk in order to do all the important bug fixes , whilst sipping your coffee... when all of t...
View full detailsIf you don't get this one, you belong to the rest... ;-) If there's a slight smile on your face though, you should probably think about h...
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