What the Hack Day 2
I've spent noon lying in a hammock, sipping "Blender" drinks, a tasty fruit shake with crushed ice and doing some Debian testing security stuff.
Talks in the morning were mixed, the talk about hashes was interesting, but the rest didn't caught my attention were much. I was rather tired from the night, though, so I might have been a bit biased. At the late afternoon some astronomy geek gave a talk about hobbyist analysis of the pictures of the flight to the Titan moon. Pretty cool, the even presented it earlier than NASA/ESA.
The evening track started with an hour long rant by Andreas Bogk about UNIX and C and it's deficiencies. I agree with his analysis, but disagree with his proposed solution (Dylan). Python is ready for production use, has all the features you need and a refreshingly nice syntax, while Dylan fails to hide it's ugly Pascal legacy.
The talk about key banging from some lockpicking guy was very nice, if you ever need a secure lock, buy a Kata Penta Deluxe, it can resist forces of more than 1,500 newtons and it's completely banging proof.
The THX Olympic Quiz sucked alot, and as it started to thunderstorm again we left for the tents, where I'm now closing the day with some hacking and general worrying about the water-proofness of our power and network installation. :-)
Ahh, and in the arcade tent they have a light gun version of "Captain Wolf", I've played it for several levels, what an excellent game. Really great games don't lose attraction over the time
Talks in the morning were mixed, the talk about hashes was interesting, but the rest didn't caught my attention were much. I was rather tired from the night, though, so I might have been a bit biased. At the late afternoon some astronomy geek gave a talk about hobbyist analysis of the pictures of the flight to the Titan moon. Pretty cool, the even presented it earlier than NASA/ESA.
The evening track started with an hour long rant by Andreas Bogk about UNIX and C and it's deficiencies. I agree with his analysis, but disagree with his proposed solution (Dylan). Python is ready for production use, has all the features you need and a refreshingly nice syntax, while Dylan fails to hide it's ugly Pascal legacy.
The talk about key banging from some lockpicking guy was very nice, if you ever need a secure lock, buy a Kata Penta Deluxe, it can resist forces of more than 1,500 newtons and it's completely banging proof.
The THX Olympic Quiz sucked alot, and as it started to thunderstorm again we left for the tents, where I'm now closing the day with some hacking and general worrying about the water-proofness of our power and network installation. :-)
Ahh, and in the arcade tent they have a light gun version of "Captain Wolf", I've played it for several levels, what an excellent game. Really great games don't lose attraction over the time
posted by Moritz Muehlenhoff at 11:14 PM
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