wishlist.mdwn

   1 [[!meta title="My Personal Wish List"]]
   2
   3 This is a list of things I would like to have, so if you want to make me a
   4 present, feel free to use this list as an inspiration. However, I myself may
   5 satisfy my wishes on this list from time to time ;-)
   6
   7 DVDs
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   9 (Please, no BluRays or HD-DVDs, their DRM systems are evil!)
  10
  11  * everything from [Monty Python’s Flying Circus](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063929/)
  12  * [Tonari no Totoro](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096283/) (1988)
  13  * [Mononoke-hime](http://imdb.com/title/tt0119698/) (1997)
  14  * [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/) (2005)
  15  * [Pulp Fiction](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/) (1994)
  16  * [Raiders of the Lost Ark](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082971/) (1981)
  17  * [Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087469/) (1984)
  18  * [Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097576/) (1989)
  19  * [Sin City](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401792/) (2005)
  20  * [Lost in Translation](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/) (2003)
  21  * [Hackers](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/) (1995)
  22
  23 CDs
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  25  * Kamelot – Epica
  26
  27 Books
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  29 (ordered by preference, no e-books until the DRM issue is gone.)
  30
  31  * John Scalzi: The Ghost Brigades, ISBN-13: 978-0765354068
  32  * Michael Seemann: Das neue Spiel: Strategien für die Welt nach dem digitalen Kontrollverlust, ISBN: 3936086796
  33  * more “Discworld” novels by Terry Prattchet, in English or German
  34     * already got “Mort”, “Guards! Guards!”, “The Color of Magic”, “The Light Fantastic”
  35     * based on that, refer to the [Discworld Reading Order Guides](http://www.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/) for your optimal choice
  36  * Bryan Lee O'Malley: Scott Pilgrim (for example, [this](http://www.amazon.de/Scott-Pilgrim-Boxed-Set-Poster/dp/1934964573/?tag=aflattrcom506-21) 6 Volume Set)
  37  * Christopher Hadnagy: Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking. ISBN-13: 978-0470639535
  38  * Jon Loeliger: Versionskontrolle mit Git, O'Reilly Verlag, Köln 2010. ISBN-13: 978-3897219458 (or in English: ISBN-13: 978-0596520120)
  39  * Alexander Pawlak: Die Wissenschaft bei Douglas Adams, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2010. ISBN-13: 978-3527504565
  40  * Jürgen Quade, Eva-Katharina Knust: Linux-Treiber entwickeln. ISBN-13: 978-3-89864-696-3
  41  * Anything written by Donald E. Knuth (in English please). For the long term, “The Art of Computer Programming” would be nice to have.
  42     * Already got “The Art of Computer Programming”, Volume 1.
  43  * John Napier: Hands. Princeton University Press, 1993. ISBN-13: 978-0691025476
  44  * Jeffrey Friedl: Mastering Regular Expressions. O'Reilly 1997, ISBN 1-56592-257-3
  45
  46 Hardware
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  48  * Currently, nothing in particular.
  49
  50 Other Things I Could Make Use Of
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  52  * A subscription to [LWN](https://lwn.net/subscribe/)