Welcome to wollgarten.com

that's me, my name is

christoph wollgarten

student of informatics at the university of aachen (RWTH) since 2003. prediploma reached 2007, focus on diplom.

coder since 1992 - on a 3.5 mhz machine

the sinclair zx spectrum was one of the most popular european computers of the 80's. two models were launched: one with 16 kb ram and one with 48 kb ram. wow, what a machine. to store your written code/program you had to record it to a cassette/tape (modulation|demodulation / bits|tones). what a mess - essentially 97% of my old (previous david-hasselhoff-) tapes crashed after backup or had errors.. crazy times ;)

projects:

main projects besides university and surely friends:

system administrator: linux os, monitoring server machines, dynamic name server, e-mail services, spam & virus protection, web services, database, backup & security management...

violent assistance:

DRBD.org - block device, designed to build high availability clusters

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool - round robin database from tobias oetiker

roundcube.net - roundcube webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client (ajax, xhtml, css), just beta status but works quite well

notepad++ - great generic source code editor if you like having a holy hand on source more than wysiwyg, unfortunately only win32 api

VirtualBox - a family of powerful virtualization products - the only professional solution that is freely available as open source software under the terms of the GNU general public license, i like it!

some pics:

good things don't always come to those who wait, eventually located:

LATEX symbol list - dawn of golden hours, thanks to Scott Pakin

keep in mind:
someday I should work on increasing my pagerank: link voting for keyword 'wollgarten'. i have to find a solution...
google likes huge portals, this is a one-page site... hmm let's see how much 'big-points' larry's & sergey's algorithm spits out ;-)