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21C3 010 - XXXL and not Herdware
Ahhh. Had some good healthy XXXXL (no joke) meal at Burger King.
Now sitting in hall one having fun listening to some talks and hacking around on the keyboard. I'm now hosting our own small 802.11b network to bridge him to the a network, which is at least kind of working up here.
Hardware involved: 2 notebooks, 1 internal Atheros WLAN card (802.11a network), 1 Prism 2.5 network PCMCIA card with HostAP as master, one Prism 2.5 compact flash card with adapter and HostAP drivers. Medha really needed to get his Jabber code to have something to play with :-)
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21C3 001 - The Beginning
Hope everybody had a good christmas :-)
We (Medha, Helgar, Tob, Phil, mond, Buck in a couple of hours...) are attending the Chaos Communication Congress 2004 (internal 21C3 page). The keynote speach was awesome. Need a video for this. The kind of video you can show around to let people understand what hacking is about... More to come.
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The Gods pause for a Moment
Tonight Tob came over to test the new Amiga joysticks that had arrived today :-) So we played some good old Amiga classics! Great. We almost finished Prince of Persia (that fat guy at the end didn't let us pass though). While playing for the second time (you can restart in the current level as often as you want, but you have to finish the game in 60 mins) we found a flaw. You can get into a trap without being killed and without the possibility to escape. You are stuck and all you can do is restart the whole game... We played a couple of other games, had a look at Elvira and eventually played Moonstone. I like these old games where at most a handful of people are mentioned in the credits. That was a great last geek night this year in Ac :-)
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Huge!
Finally I get to post some notes. I have a new home. And I'm not alone. Medha and I now share this flat. And it's huge! Great, we have a kitchen (the kind which is in a separate room! ;-) and a small extra serve... eh, dining room. More about this to come.
Today I found out how awfully slow queries with a JOINed SELECT work with MySQL (all fields indexed already). After making them two separate SELECTs (which was luckily possible in this case) and it brought a speedup by the factor of about 200!
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Finally
So finally I got everything done here in England. The new software version is running with a couple of new features in. New APIs learned: Java Printing. This is quite interesting and simple, as long as you just draw some stuff. As soon as you want to have multi-page printouts and more intelligent stuff it's getting a hell lot of work. The print systems made it to more than 700 lines of code in the end...
Haven't seen that much from England this time though. Next time (and this seems to be in reach sometime within the next few months) I hope this will change.
