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Blinkenlights @ Chaos Communication Camp 2003
cavac writes "From 07.-10. August, we from the Chaos Computer Club have another Chaos Communication Camp. Please be sure to visit us at the BlinkenArea, a place where we show the newest projects and technology derived of Blinkenlights, the famous installation on Berlin's 'House of the Teacher'."
ACHTUNG!!!
Das machine is nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen
der springenwerk, blowenfusen und corkenpoppen mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht
fur gewerken by das dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken sightseeren keepen hands
in das pockets. Relaxen und vatch das blinkenlights!!!
-- UNIX fortune(6)
BlinkenArea
So is slashdot news for nerds or advertisment for nerds? I find it easy to get mixed up at times.
telnet www.blinkenlights.nl
Im sorry officer! I was just playing pong on that building over there with my mobile phone and I didnt see that car in front of me... What? That guy was playing pong too??!?!?!?
Seriously, i too love computer gatherings but isn't going to camping a little too much? (I think there is also a Userfriendly comic strip with this subject.)
I just don't understand why it is cool to do a Pc/Hacking gathering in a tent.. maybe i am getting old..
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The Chaos Communication Camp will also host the Gimp Developers Conference, and a meeting of the Discordian Section of the Knights of the Lambda Calculus (that's Lisp hackers, for the uninitiated).
I'll bring my Lisp Machine, complete with Space Cadet keyboard.
mplayer -vo aa hello.mpg
First this little office building... Next it will be a whole city block... Pretty soon I'll be able to play games from my private jet with my mile-diagonal screen on the ground...
KappaStone
"I can't signen zie papers you've broken my fingers..." Should I trust the security certificate from a hacker site?...Windows XP (gasp a windows user on /.!) prompted me and asked if it should trust them, I'm guess its ok, but I have this policy about handing my house keys to self-proclaimed burglars...
All www.ccc.de URLs are available over HTTPS. Encrypt all communication whenever possible, not just when you deem the content important enough to prevent eavesdropping.
Every 12.4 seconds brief subliminal messages are displayed in the Blinkenlights display. Some, not all, of them were captured using high speed video:
Obey
Marry and Reproduce
Consume
This is exactly how Sarah Conner saw it starting.
8/7-8/10? Dang, I'm gonna miss it 'cos they'll ship me to UK before that!
The European Union commissioners have announced that an agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as Euro - English (Euro for short).
In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will reseive this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replased with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm.
In the sekond year, the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 persent shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by " v".
During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst place.
They also made the winter 2003 cover of 2600 - Hacker Quarterly
Their installation during the Paris' "Nuit Blanche 2002" on one of the national library towers were just great !
:o)
Big tetris with wifi ont a building
Anybody got picture of this ?
I know I was swerving officer, but really I'm not drunk, you see my crack pipe got hot and then I dropped it, so as I was picking that up my loaded 9mm slipped out, and I had to bend down for that. Before I knew it I was over the centerline, but really you gotta believe me I haven't benn drinking, If my Parole officer hears I was drinking I'm in big trouble.
This article has made my day. Hell, it reminds me of the time my uncle gave me a few bucks to design a "switch simulator." I cleaned out the LED supplies at 4 Radio shacks, and assembled a psuedo-random blinking light pattern. He needed something to fill in an empty rack at the data center.
For kicks it included a voice recorder chip, and speed adjust. A miracle what can be accomplished with a few NAND chips, NOR chips, a BCD counter, and a whole lot of solder.
Hint for kids trying this at home, tie the LED's to the supply (+), and let the discreet components open the return (-) part of the circuit. 60 LEDs consume a surpisingly large amount of current. Forrest E. Mims is your friend...
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
It's at the same date as Assembly, so I can't attend.
Note to self: get smarter troll to guard door.
how is this done, i looked at the source and i cant figure it out. is this an XML thing? am i missing something?
I want 2D games back.
Since when do we translate names? I mean, nice, but it certainly isnt helpful if you are asking for directions.
Announcing the OpenBSD presence during the CCC SummerCamp 2003(*)
(*) which will now be refered to as 'OpenBSD SummerCamp 2003'
All info on http://eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/
Hello,
You might remember us from such mishaps and hangovers like HAL 2001,
(see http://www.eurobsd.org/hal2001/), Libre Software Meeting and
LinuxTag... Wel, we are at it again.
OpenBSD will be present at the CCC SummerCamp 2003 in Paulshof, a small district of the city of Altlandsberg near Berlin, Germany.
(more info: http://www.ccc.de/camp/2003/index.en.html)
We'll be providing a roof over the head for any OpenBSD user or developer
interested spending 4 days in a field near Berlin. Available are tent space
for hacking, a seperate dark/silent tent for sleeping and lots of opportunities
to go skinny dipping in a nearby lake. We've been garanteed by Mr Muhammed
Saeed al-Sahaf that there will be, and I repeat, no rain this year
(contrary to HAL 2 years ago). In any case, we have 140 m^2 tentspace
to keep us out of rain *and* sun. And a stocked fridge with Gulden Draak.
If you are interested in attending this event, please register first with
the SummerCamp organizers using https://register.camp.ccc.de/
Second step is to register your presence in the BSD Tent, using the
web form at http://eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/register.html
Seutfz... es ist wohl nicht leicht, wenn man kein deutsch spricht, und auch keinen anstaendigen Uebersetzer zur Hand hat ;-)
Von einem langjaehrigen CCC Unterstuetzer!
Thomas J. Ackermann interim CEO/Founder - Melior, Inc. iSecure - CyberWarfare Defense www.dDos.com thomas@ddos.com
Blinkenlights ROCK !!!
it's just great !
With that aggravating beauty, Lulu Walls.