After more than 80 satisfied campers in 2010, the long awaited third iteration of HaxoGreen, in its 2012 edition is finally here! After a very successful start into the forays of international hackcamps and hackerfests, hackerspaces and hackerspace-folks from all over Europe and beyond … Continue reading →

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Our member Gunstick has started his workshop series about the Atari ST platform with a focus on oldschool demos which were the craze in the 90′s. This Saturday was the first talk (get the slides from there too) with a … Continue reading →

This address uses a network port which is normally used for purposes other than Web browsing. Firefox has canceled the request for your protection. This message appears if you want to access a website on a non-standard port, e.g. http://example.com:42 . Being a developer you might run in your non-productive environment a web server listening on [...]

Der Chaos Computer Club Luxemburg zeigt sich besorgt gegenüber der heiklen Situation im Sportministerium, bei der 48.670 private und medizinische Datensätze von Sportlern ohne größere Vorsichtsmaßnahmen im Netz abrufbar waren.   Legitimation solcher Datenbanken Die sogenannte „Médico-Sportif“ Datenbank, die vom … Continue reading →

Since yesterday, January 16th, pacman 4 is in the core repository and upgrading to it breaks the system. If you can wait with any updates, wait. If you must update some packages, only update those which you need to update right now and which don’t affect the system. To exclude the packages which surely breaks your system, [...]

Who is Anonymous and how do they define themseleves? Are they hackers or not? And by the way: what is a hacker? Do they also exist in Luxembourg? These were questions Gérard Floener from RTL Radio Luxembourg was interested in … Continue reading →

Nun sitz ich hier, um 5 Uhr morgens. Guck mir “Troublemaker” auf der Leinwand an und bin begeistert.   Den Film kannte ich schon, könnte ich aber immer und immer wieder sehen. Aber das nur so nebenbei.  Ich hatte mal wieder so nen WAHNSINN IST DAS GEIL UND ÜBERHAUPT Moment. Ohne Punkt und Komma, so [...]

Updates aren’t they something beautiful?! Especially in the moment when you’ve rebooted the box and X comes up to say ‘Hello’ for a second and troughs you back to your login screen (slim). Well at least this came true for quite a few awesome (window manager) users using Arch Linux. To produce relief, read the read more »

Ich staunte nicht schlecht als ich an einem LuxFiber Anschluss Port-Forwarding, DynDNS etc einstellen wollte und das teil von aussen nicht erreichbar war.     Kurz, bei einem LuxFiber Anschluss bekommt man KEINE öffentliche IPv4 Addresse dazu. Muss man extra dazu kaufen für 1,99 Euro/Monat m(.  Die machen NAT44. DOPPEL-NAT!     Also rief ich den [...]

Well first of all, I hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!   For my part, I rewatched The Walking Dead with a friend and played our traditional games like Left 4 Dead but also inFamous: Festival of Blood which I am enjoying a lot right now. But enough about that. Today I’m writing about something [...]

It has been a while since I last did an unboxing article but with this brand new and popular game that recently came out, I had no other choice. So as you can see, the Batman Arkham City Collector’s Edition made it’s way to my place a few days and I will present you the content [...]

Most of us all remember the day where we have been when we took notice about the happenings of September 11th 2001 in New York City. But what about the 22 of November in the year 1964? Those of us who have already been born and were mature enough to understand what was going on, read more »

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Hey Hab dieses Video auf netzpolitik.org gefunden, welches erklärt wie Creative Commons funktioniert. Wenn ihr es noch nicht wisst dieser Blog steht auch unter einer Creative Commons Lizenz. Nämlich unter der CC-BY-NC-SA. Hier nun das Video: Creative Commons Kiwi from CreativeCommons AotearoaNZ on Vimeo.

Das ist nenn ich ne Schüssel voll Ananas creme :)

Heute gibs mal was vom Chinesen! Warum? Irgendwie mag jeder den ich kenne Chinesisches Essen. Ist auch nicht verwerflich, denn es ist eine fantastische Küche mit richtig geilen Gewürzen und Saucen. Und da dachte ich mir, ich poste euch mal ein einfaches Rezept das ich zum Beispiel heute noch gemacht habe.

Was brauche ich?

• Eiernudeln ( 250g )
• Reisessig
• Dunkle Sojasauce
• Hoisin Sauce
• Sambal Oelek
• Nasi Goreng
• Salz
• Pfeffer
• Rindfleisch ( 300g )
• Zwiebel
• Knoblauchzehe
• Kokosmilch
• Zucker ( brauner am besten )
• Öl ( Maiskeimöl oder Rapsöl )

Wer es wagt dieses Rezept in einer herkömmlichen Pfanne zu kochen, der gehört gekreuzigt! Ihr nehmt nen Wok dafür!!!

Wir fangen damit an, dass wir unsere Zwiebel und die Knoblauchzehe klein hacken und erstmal bei Seite legen.

Dann erhitzen wir den Wok auf höchster Stufe und geben das Öl hinzu. Folgend werden die Zwiebeln und der Knoblauch in den Wok getan und glasig gebraten.

Währendem schneiden wir das Rindfleisch in kleine, mundgerechte Happen und würzen es nochmal mit Pfeffer und Salz. Nun stellen wir das erstmal bei Seite. Jetzt wird ein Topf mit Wasser erhitzt und die Eiernudeln kommen hinein, wenn das Wasser kocht. Vergesst nicht etwas Salz ins Wasser zu tun!

Wenn jetzt Zwiebel und Co glasig sind, kommt das Fleisch hinzu. Vergesst nicht immer gut zu rühren.

Nun haben wir Zeit für das Herzsstück des Gerichts! Wir nehmen eine kleine Schüssel und bereiten die Sosse vor. Dazu vermischen wir 4 EL Kokosmilch, 1 EL Reisessig, 1 EL Sojasauce, 1 TL Zucker sowie 1 TL Sambal Oelek und 1 EL Hoisin Sauce. Wenn nun das Fleisch angebräunt ist, geben wir die Sosse hinzu. Jetzt heisst es ständig umrühren!

Herkömmliche Eiernudeln müssten nach 4 Minuten fertig gekocht sein. Wenn dies der Fall ist, dann geben wir die Nudeln mit in den Wok und vermengen alles gut. Auf die Nudeln kommt je nach Geschmack etwas Nasi Goreng. Nun das Ganze noch 2-3 Minuten köcheln lassen. Danach vom Herd nehmen und servieren!

Guten Appetit!

Tipp:

 Das hier ist die absolute Basis version. Viel besser schmeckt es wenn man Frühlingszwiebeln nimmt und noch etwa 200 g Bohnensprossen. Wer mag kann sich noch ne Paprika klein schneiden und dazu geben!

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An illustration depicting the state of affairs in our current understanding of particle physics. Time to explore the exotic lands!

After last year's initial success, the Luxembourgian Hackerspace syn₂cat and the Chaos Computer Club Lëtzebuerg, once again organize a summer-camp for hackers and technology enthusiasts from Luxembourg and its surroundings.

HaxoGreen 2010, a pun on the leetspeak term 'h4x0r3d' will take place from July 22nd till July 25th in the southern town Dudelange in Luxembourg.

Whether you want to attend lectures and workshops, hack on your projects or just share 3 midsummer nights outdoors, socializing with other hackers, artists and geeks, HaxoGreen is the place to be. No need to be a 1337 H4X0r, we welcome all inquisitive people from around the globe.

Registration for HaxoGreen is open since February 23rd and early registration is highly recommended as there's only a limited number of tickets available. The camp is a comparatively small and cosy event that lives from its visitors participation. You may submit your lecture or workshop idea on the following or other topics at the camp's Participate! page:

• Green IT and Green Hacks
• Virtualized Environments
• Cloud Computing
• Darknets and Hackerspaces
• Computer Security Incident Response and Mitigation
• Do-it-yourself Science
• Molecular Gastronomy
• Wilderness Survival Tactics
• Amateur Robotics
• Radio and Mobile Communications (GNURadio, etc.)
• Electronic Art (vj, dj, installations etc.)
• Net Neutrality, Intellectual Property and Privacy Aspects
• Active/Liquid Democracy and Political Activism
• Sustainable Housing and eco-friendly Living

Hope to see you there!

A zoom from the Himalayas to the microwave background and back compiled by the American Museum of Natural History from current data. It shows our place in the part of the universe we can see and the many galaxies in the neighbourhood that have been mapped. (note: the black cones are not due to some weird geometry, we simply haven't looked that way yet.)

Thanks to http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2009/12/from-distance.html for the tip.

October 10, 2009 is the date...on the "Nuit des Musées", GRL will tag the MNHA wall...again!

"Bare is a conductive ink that is applied directly onto the skin allowing the creation of custom electronic circuitry. This innovative material allows users to interact with electronics through gesture, movement, and touch. Bare can be applied with a brush, stamp or spray and is non-toxic and temporary. Application areas include dance, music, computer interfaces, communication and medical devices. Bare is an intuitive and non-invasive technology which will allow users to bridge the gap between electronics and the body."

–Bare Conductive

Well. There goes another part of my body.

[Reposted from mzeltner]

The 5:16pm train brought me back from Linz/Upper-Austria yesterday. It also brought some blisters, exhausted legs and an innumerable array of impressions from Ars Electronica 2009, some of which I'll try to relay in this blogpost.

I bought a daypass on Sunday, which might or might not have paid off, I'm not quite sure.. 33€ is quite a lot of money, especially when the train ticket already cost you a hundred bucks. To anyone going to Ars in 2010 I suggest to buy a festival pass, spend at least 3 days on the various exhibitions and talks and prepare yourself a schedule (because theirs clearly sucked).

Ars Electronica Center (AEC)
The labs
The Ars electronica center clearly has an abundant array of interesting stuff sitting around. With their Fab-, Brain-, and Bio-labs on the -3 floor, they touch a broad variety of subjects, from cyborgs via sensor-enhanced art to 3D printers and lasercutters. This is actually somewhat like MIT's Medialab in Boston, only that this is clearly more exhibition-focused and less a working space. And clearly a lot smaller.

The picture above is a web made of wire straps.


The sculpture in the above picture does actually sense when you go near it and it reacts by moving its various "body"-parts.

Knock! Music Program (by Novmichi Tosa)
The second floor actually has some cool hands-on stuff that you can't actually touch, which is sad. But anyway, the Knock music machine is a pretty cool concept of an semi-electric music instrument. There were several components to it, the picture below is just one of them.
I actually found a couple of youtube videos of the machine in action. I just hope you understand some japanese ;) (Another resource I found is Novmichi's sketchblog.)


loopScape (by Ryota Kuwakubo)
Another great thing on the second floor was obviously loopScape. In contrast to ordinary computer games, this is one where you actually have to move around the "screen", which is made out of leds. Steering your fighter-jet with a wireless controller, your goal is to shoot down the enemy's fighter. To get all of the action, you can't stand still but have to move around to actually see everything that is happening in this fast-paced game.



Quartet
Quartet is a huge machine that produces sounds from resonating wine-glasses and golf-balls being projected onto wooden xylophone bars. I hope I managed to capture some of that motion in my still.



Höhenrausch
Höhenrausch was an exhibition above the roofs of Linz. Walking on a wooden structure, you get from exhibit to exhibit while having a grandiose view over the city. You could even take a ride in a Ferris wheel.

One exhibit was really awesome! If you stood below the sprinklers with an umbrella, you'd hear 8-bit music as produced by the frequency of the water being released. The umbrella's tissue serves as a simple membrane and produces astonishingly clear sounds.

Cyberarts Festival
Tantalum Memorial - Residue (website)
Relay station for a social phone network used by the congolese diaspora in London.
And yes, though this thing is not your most recent asterisk pbx, it actually worked and was relaying calls for people on that network. From the project's website:

"'Tantalum Memorial' is a series of telephony-based memorials by the artists group Harwood, Wright, Yokokoji, to the people who have died as a result of the “coltan wars” in the Congo. The installation is constructed out of electromagnetic Strowger switches – the basis of the first automatic telephone exchange invented in 1888. The title of the work refers to the metal tantalum, an essential component of mobile phones"

Pursuit of the unheard
One of the things that kept me awake on Sunday evening was the "Höllenmaschine", one of the first, if not THE first synthesizer ever. Built by Bob Moog for Max Brand. As it says in the brochure: "The first wiring diagrams for the Max Brand synthesizer by Bob Moog are dated 1957."


On Monday morning, I decided to check out the MIT Impetus exhibition nonetheless, even though I thought I had already seen most of it in the Medialab itself.
And oh and I was so wrong!

littleBits (website)
Again, a little excerpt from their website:

"littleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together. With a growing number of available modules, littleBits aims to move electronics from late stages of the design process to its earliest ones, and from the hands of experts, to those of artists, makers and designers."

Various impressions from Linz

One thing that I noticed already on Sunday were these "stencils". Only, it only came to me on Monday though that these weren't your ordinary stencils. What is so uncommon here is that the stencils are actually areas that are cleaner than the area around it. So what you see here is kind of a 'cleaner's graffiti'. (No, I'm in no way affiliated to Mazda or any other automobile manufacturer)

Finally, a last picture of the "Fassadenfestival":

A couple more pictures will be made available on my soup.
(All images contained herein are subject to the CC-BY-SA license.)