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Interesting topics at 21C3

This list is merely a pointer for myself. Unfortunately, I wasn’t aware of the many VJ-related topics at 21C3 – hence I’m at home instead of attending 21C3: The Usual Suspects (BTW funny iPod advertisement spoof – Apple’s marketing division obviously hit the bull’s eye once again ;). At least I can cure my sore throat now ;)

21C3: Anti-Honeypot Technology
21C3: AVG ain’t vector graphics
21C3: Biometrie Überwinden
21C3: Black Ops of DNS
21C3: Bluetooth Hacking
21C3: Ciphire Mail
21C3: Cored Programming
21C3: Internet censorship in China
21C3: Introduction to 3DJ
21C3: Introduction to Cubensis
21C3: Introduction to ES-X
21C3: Introduction to Play
21C3: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday
21C3: Mixing VJing and Post-Production
21C3: Natural Language Steganography
21C3: Next-Generation Peer-to-Peer Systems
21C3: Old Skewl Hacking: Infra Red
21C3: On finding the score to visuals
21C3: Passive covert channels in the Linux kernel
21C3: Pirate Radio
21C3: Pixels want to break free of the screen
21C3: Pixels want to dance
21C3: Pixels want to talk
21C3: Practical Mac OS X Insecurity
21C3: Pure Data and Gem for VJs
21C3: SAP R/3 Protocol Reverse Engineering
21C3: Secure Instant Messaging
21C3: Sicherheitsanalyse von IT-Grossprojekten der Öffentlichen Hand
21C3: Sicherheitsmanagement
21C3: State of Emergent Democracy
21C3: The Blinking Suspects
21C3: The Fiasco µKernel
21C3: The Kernel Accelerator Device
21C3: Tor
21C3: Unsicherheit von Personal Firewalls
21C3: USB – Unbekannter Serieller Bus
21C3: Verdeckte Netzwerkanalyse
21C3: Verified Fiasco
21C3: Voting Machine Technology
21C3: Wirklich selbst denken oder durchdrehen
21C3: xDash
21C3: XMPP/Jabber

(Credits to Firefox, Vim and regexps which greatly simplified the task of compiling this list :)

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Safe shutdown using an ATX power button

For Gentoo Linux, do the following (adjust where necessary):

0. Make sure you have an ATX board and a power button ;)

1. Make sure your kernel has support for ACPI (either built-in or as modules)

2. # emerge acpi acpid

3. # rc-update add acpid default

4. for kernel 2.6 (skip this step if ACPI support is compiled into the kernel):
# echo “ac” >>/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
# echo “button” >>/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

5. add parameters apm=off and acpi=on to your kernel boot line (e.g. in /boot/grub/menu.lst)

6. # reboot

(Source: Linux für alle. Thanks to maol for the pointer; other interesting articles: Server shutdown via Apache [Caution!], LaTeX Business cards)

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DriverGuide.com

DriverGuide.com

Let’s face it, finding the right device driver can be a tedious, time consuming, often impossible task! The Driver Guide was created to make finding driver updates a whole lot easier. With the help of thousands of our members, we have compiled a massive database archive of drivers and resources that is by far the largest and most comprehensive on the Web.

ACK! :)

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Some pictures of the Swiss Firefox 1.0 release party in Zurich/Switzerland

I’ve uploaded a couple of pictures of the Swiss Firefox 1.0 Release party in Zurich/Switzerland. Additional, password-protected pictures (as people are recognizable) and 2 short movie clips can be accessed using received credentials (login by clicking on [login], then click on the appearing nested album).

Kudos to the organizers of the party: http://www.andrist.org/ /
http://www.openforce.at/mozparty2/?party=388!

And thanks a lot to all the devs and contributors of Mozilla Firefox 1.0, the best web browser ever :)

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Get Firefox!

I use Mozilla Firefox for quite a while now and I am very happy with it. It’s high time to spread the word:

Get Firefox!

It’s probably the last chance for you to claim you were already using Firefox before its official release (1.0) ;)

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goScreen rocks :)

Praise to Andrei Gourianov, the creator of goScreen, the only really usable virtual desktop manager for Windows. He recently managed to send me my license key within a couple of hours.

The not-so-good precursor: On that said day, my trial version of goScreen (or rather, a very central part of it, the desktop maps) stopped working without prior warning (very unusual for shareware) – unfortunately in a very bad moment for me! There was no way to make it temporarily work again (e.g. by prolonging the trial period), so I had to wait for my license to arrive to continue using goScreen. The good outcome: Andrei was very understanding, responsive and co-operative and sent me my key within exceptionally short time. That saved my day and work, Andrei! Thanks again!

Kudos also to Attila who told me about goScreen the first time. I always missed something like this on Windows.