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Tim

@biw

Computer Science student, who writes about everything that comes into his mind. (Also: C# for the win!) [EN and DE]

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Tim
@biw Jan 29, 2018, 6:01 PM UTC

[EN/DE] Procedural Terrain - Behind the games (Part 1: Heightmaps)

# [EN] Heightmaps *** ### Introduction Many modern games work with procedurally generated terrain. Some use it to make the game more dynamic, some use it to increase development speed. There are mult…

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@biw Jan 21, 2018, 2:40 PM UTC

[EN/DE] Meltdown & Spectre - The inner workings (Part 3: Spectre)

# [EN] Spectre *** ### Introduction In the last post, we learned that Meltdown only works on Intel CPUs. Spectre on the other hand works on nearly all modern CPUs, but the attack requires knowledge a…

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@biw Jan 16, 2018, 3:15 PM UTC

[EN/DE] Meltdown & Spectre - The inner workings (Part 2: Meltdown)

# [EN] Meltdown *** ### Introduction Now that we've covered all the necessary terms, it's time to finally get to Meltdown! Before we begin, it's important to know that the Meltdown attack works on al…

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@biw Jan 14, 2018, 12:00 PM UTC

[EN/DE] Meltdown & Spectre - The inner workings (Part 1: Basics)

# [EN] Basics *** ### Introduction In this series, I want to cover the exploits nearly everyone heard of by now, Meltdown and Spectre. Most people know, that you are to get passwords and other hidden…

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@biw Jan 7, 2018, 7:07 PM UTC

[EN/DE] Who am I, and what am I doing here? // Wer bin ich, und was mache ich hier?

# Introduction [EN] ## Who am I? Hi! I'm Tim from Germany. I live near cologne and I'm studying Computer Science at TH Cologne at the moment. Because of that you probably already guessed that I love…

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[EN/DE] Procedural Terrain - Behind the games (Part 1: Heightmaps)

[EN/DE] Meltdown & Spectre - The inner workings (Part 3: Spectre)

[EN/DE] Meltdown & Spectre - The inner workings (Part 2: Meltdown)

[EN/DE] Meltdown & Spectre - The inner workings (Part 1: Basics)

[EN/DE] Who am I, and what am I doing here? // Wer bin ich, und was mache ich hier?