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Best wishes for 2007 ! And may the force be with you.
Kobaan.
Monthly Archives: December 2006
23rd Chaos Communication Congress
The annual
Chaos Communication Congress, will be held 27th to 30th december in
Berlin.
This year there will something very special, since internet live
streaming of events reached its limits last year, the Chaos
Computer Club folks managed to get a license for broadcasting
events in DVB-T. And they broadcast their selfmade DVB stream by
themselves with a selfmade
DVB-T transmitter, and all this for less than 1000 Euros.
Chaos Communication Congress, will be held 27th to 30th december in
Berlin.
This year there will something very special, since internet live
streaming of events reached its limits last year, the Chaos
Computer Club folks managed to get a license for broadcasting
events in DVB-T. And they broadcast their selfmade DVB stream by
themselves with a selfmade
DVB-T transmitter, and all this for less than 1000 Euros.
To be sure that noone gets disturbed they got a licensed fequency
and are allowed 5 Watts sending power, enough to cover direct eye
contact distance to Alexanderplatz in Berlin. Isn’t that great. I
guess a lot of TV station get pissed when they recalculate their
investment for their DVB equipment. 
The agenda is still not final, but a major issue will be trust and
security, especially dedicated to voting machines, RFIDs, DRM,
DataMining, forensics, electronic passports, bluetooth, biometric,
console hacking, VoIP, Web2.0 and the end of traditional TV.
Be curious….
Real tough Sudoku
Sudoku became
world famous in the last months, although it exists since 18th
century when swiss mathematician Leonhard
Euler discovered a puzzle game called Latin Square.
The name Sudoku comes from the japanese sentence:
数字は独身に限る,
meaning as much as: limit to unique numbers.
Although published in various newspapers over the years, it reached
world wide fame quite recently.Meanwhile there are also a lot of more complex sudokus for “the
advanced puzzle fan”.
world famous in the last months, although it exists since 18th
century when swiss mathematician Leonhard
Euler discovered a puzzle game called Latin Square.
The name Sudoku comes from the japanese sentence:
数字は独身に限る,
meaning as much as: limit to unique numbers.
Although published in various newspapers over the years, it reached
world wide fame quite recently.Meanwhile there are also a lot of more complex sudokus for “the
advanced puzzle fan”.
Sudoku
with 16 sqaures and numbers.
Sudoku
as jigsaw puzzle, non square based:
And for the real freaks, pre-requistiting a computer, and probably
a 3D graphics card:
The ultimate 3-dimensional Sudoku called:
3doku, available for Mac and PC.
If you’re interested in the different mathematical approaches to
solve a sudoku take a look at wikipedia.
Journey to the moon/space/orbit whatever…
Finally Jules Verne’s idea of shooting
a man to the moon will become reality, almost.
The US AirForce is building a 2.4km long magnetic accelerator,
which shall be used to shoot up to 100kg of “baggage” into the
orbit, thus saving the cost of the expensive supportflights with
traditional rockets. Although it will not be possible to transport
human beings or any other lifeform with this “vehicle” into space,
it might work fine for already dead meat or miniature
satellites.The principle of the “cannon” is quite familiar to the particle accellerator at
CERN, which just finished installing all the superconductor
magnets of its 25km ring.
a man to the moon will become reality, almost.
The US AirForce is building a 2.4km long magnetic accelerator,
which shall be used to shoot up to 100kg of “baggage” into the
orbit, thus saving the cost of the expensive supportflights with
traditional rockets. Although it will not be possible to transport
human beings or any other lifeform with this “vehicle” into space,
it might work fine for already dead meat
or miniaturesatellites.The principle of the “cannon” is quite familiar to the particle accellerator at
CERN, which just finished installing all the superconductor
magnets of its 25km ring.
I can already see the headline: Chinese spy satellite seriously hit
by frozen french fries….
Good news, it works. Bad news, it works.
Bad awakening for Mac users, Apple
fixed a bug.
It took almost 2 years for Apple to release a security fix so that
it’s not anymore possible to hijack the builtin or even the
external USB camera from within a webpage.
At least everyone believed that this issue has been fixed in the
security update 2006-008, and people became already sad about
missing the feature to preview realtime effects on local video like
on this page: (only works for Mac people.)
fixed a bug.
It took almost 2 years for Apple to release a security fix so that
it’s not anymore possible to hijack the builtin or even the
external USB camera from within a webpage.
At least everyone believed that this issue has been fixed in the
security update 2006-008, and people became already sad about
missing the feature to preview realtime effects on local video like
on this page: (only works for Mac people.)
But there’s also good news. It still works.
Oh wait, or is it bad news ?
Anyway the good news is, that the bad news of a killed feature is
not true, and that the security fix works, as your realtime video
cannot be sent via ajax/javascript or a java applet to someone you
don’t even know by just accessing someone’s evil website.
How do we check that ?
Apple doesn’t say anything about it.
So the real good news is, enjoy the feature as long as you’re not
sitting naked in front of your mac.
Oh, uhh, aehh did I mention the bad news is, we don’t know if its
really fixed, or apple became so much interested in your homevideos
that they patched something in your system to get much sharper
pictures of you than anyone else does.
Thai / Laos Food Cooking VideoWebsites
One of my big favourits is thai food,
I like almost everything of it.
Meanwhile there’s more and more recipes on the net on how to cook
thai food, but it comes even better, more and more sites come up
with short cooking howto videos for the different meals.
I like almost everything of it.
Meanwhile there’s more and more recipes on the net on how to cook
thai food, but it comes even better, more and more sites come up
with short cooking howto videos for the different meals.
Here are some links for thai and laos food cooking videos.
(Please mind using a quick search on youtube to get the same video
as on these sites, to save the peoples homepage bandwidth.)
http://www.thaifoodtonight.com/thaifoodtonight/recipes.htm
http://www.enjoythaifood.com/videos/
http://thai-laos-food.blogspot.com/
Enjoy cooking !
Send me pictures 
The magic table
Seen on a podcast, this table is used
on a Yacht, must be pretty expensive, but the technology is simply
great.
Never seen something like it before.
on a Yacht, must be pretty expensive, but the technology is simply
great.
Never seen something like it before.
Who wants to bet with me on how many fingers got lost when changing
the size of the table ?
Cart racing was yesterday, time to fly micro airplanes
If you still remember my bog entry on
virtual reality glasses used to steer and enjoy a model airplane,
this is something much more realistic. Although I guess you need to
have done everything in your life before trying to start with
this…
virtual reality glasses used to steer and enjoy a model airplane,
this is something much more realistic. Although I guess you need to
have done everything in your life before trying to start with
this…
And the loosers are: web.de users, again
I just don’t understand why people are
so happy with their web.de freemail accounts.
so happy with their web.de freemail accounts.
One should read the forums about web.de, especially the parts where
they should pay a monthly fee for clicking on a banner to create a
premium account, although they haven’t seen any banner or button. A
few days later they get snail mail from a lawyer to pay a
surcharge, and so on….
People suffering from this should immediately contact the consumer
advice center, because they already know this case and handle the
case with you.
Now these days, another big surprise came up by web.de:
If you’re using Voice over IP via web.de, you will not be able to
continue, and further you’ll loose your assigned telephone number,
cause web.de decided to stop offering VoIP.
But I’m sure they will make a great offer for xmas where you can
have 2MB extra space on your freemail account….
Fuck web.de.
Great technews site discovered
Since I’m always interested in the
latest high tech news, I have a bunch of websites to visit to carry
all the latest news together in my brain.
Now I finally found a big comprehensive site, which covers of of it
on one place. Of course they provide RSS too.
latest high tech news, I have a bunch of websites to visit to carry
all the latest news together in my brain.
Now I finally found a big comprehensive site, which covers of of it
on one place. Of course they provide RSS too.
http://www.physorg.com
covers the latest development on:
– Nanotechnology
– Physics
– Space and Earth Science
– Electronic devices
– Technology news
– General Science news
– Medicine and Health
further it has a discussion forum:
http://forum.physorg.com
and its own video collection:
http://video.physorg.com