2009 - syn2cat

Rest in Pixels, Oneup; creator of stuff, inspiration to people

Dec

18

2009

Florian Hufsky, aged 23, fellow hacker, designer, programmer, metalab member, pirate, and above all inspiration to many people, died on the 16th December 2009. Though none of the syn2cat people had the chance to know him personally, many have expressed how they were emotionally touchedby this tragic event.

syn2cat in the news!

Nov

5

2009

We’re in the news! The Voix, a French-language Luxembourgish newspaper followed up on our latest press release, came by the space, and published a whole page on us. I must admit that it feels really good when your public relations work finally pays off. One of our goals, de-securitising ‘hackers’ seems to be well underway ...

Vintage Galore

Oct

6

2009

The vintage computer museum at syn2cat is growing. In addition to a fully functional NeXT station, an old CRT iMac, two SparcStations and an OLD HP workstation, the latest C3L meeting added a massive Sun server on which we swiftly installed FreeBSD. Thanks to emQue for lending the machine to the hackerspace! C3L meets every ...

OpenWeekend – october 10 & 11, 2009

Sep

13

2009

The weekend will serve to show off our hackerspace. We will open our premises to every visitor 48 hours in a row. We will open on Saturday morning at 10h00 with a breakfast and close it with a thank you note on Sunday around 22h00. Of course, these are not full 48 hours, but hey…we’ll ...

syn2cat’s new /home

Sep

9

2009

Howdy fellow hackers, Today is a day to be remembered…we moved into our new /home in Strassen! For those of you who have been missing the action, here’s our official address : syn2cat hackerspace.lu asbl 11, rue du cimetière L-8018 Strassen Luxembourg, Europe The location is close to “Les Thermes”, parking is right in front ...