Neat idea: Free Accommodation world wide through Hospitality Exchange – Hospitality Club
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 :)
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)
Clean software for Windows
free temporary e-mail addresses
Tips for a great technical presentation
Not the latest news, but valuable nonetheless:
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! :)
Philemon chess program
An interesting project by Dominik (Philemon) Käser:
Philemon (alternative URL), a chess program with a strength of about 2000 ELO.
Nice, concise assembly of information about chess algorithms (in German only). Source code is available for download (I can’t find any licensing information though).
LyX Template for Theses
Test of the Motorola MPx
En français et en détail :)
Rough translation of the love/hate list:
love:
+ form factor
+ dimensions
+ weight
+ colors of the PDA in the night with the buttons of the external/cover screen and the keyboard
+ simultaneous WiFi and Bluetooth connection
+ external/cover screen and its functionality
hate:
– sd card difficult to insert
– no integrated backup software
– changing the sim requires removal of the battery
– CPU is too slow
– autonomy [battery life] is bad
– PPC Phone Edition only offers minimum phone functionality