20C3

I'm stunned what I found in cefalon's 20C3 gallery: a picture from my lecture, i.e. showing me on the stage, and the crowd actually listening to me. You can see it here. So this makes it pretty easy to estimate how many people actually were at my lecture. But what I can't see on the picture are the h0rny ch1x0rz sitting in the first row on the left (from my view) during my lecture. Well, I guess this is what every lecturer at 20C3 dreams of: groupies. Just let me my dreams, even when they have not become true.

Here you can find the pictures that I took at the journey to 20C3 and at 20C3 itself. Unfortunately, my camera ate up all the pictures that I took the day after 20C3.

So, 20C3 is finally over. The lectures were quite interesting, the network was extremely crappy. I found it a nice experience, and more reports will follow as soon as I'm home on real and free internet (20C3 had no working internet at all, and the youth hostel here is expensive and castrated, i.e. no ssh, only a strictly configured IceWM without any shell and a Mozilla with IE theme). Richard is totally pissed off by the drug use on the congress, not only that it was tolerated, but also that it was (according to his words) encouraged at the closing event. I shouldn't tell him that I was totally f*cking stoned when taking part in yesterday's "Hacktivity". Anyway, photos and a longer report will follow in a few days.

Watching Kill Bill Vol. 1 on the big screen in the big hall of the Berlin Congress Center is fun. That's what I did last night. It definitely saved me a cinema ticket. Already expecting part 2.

The network is really crappy. I hate that. I took me over two hours to get a network that is stable enough to simply login into my home computer via ssh. Now, at around 3 am, the network is finally working more or less, most likely because there is way less load on the network. So, enough rants.

It sucks when the internet access is flaky. Extremely flaky. My lecture was running pretty good, a lot of people were attending it, and most of them did get my jokes. Unfortunately, it was much too short, i.e. I was finished within 40 minutes, while I had at least 50 minutes of time for my talk.

The 20C3 just started. The network is still a bit flaky, and everything is a bit chaotic, but the usual congress atmosphere is already coming up. Unfortunately, space is not that much available, so currently, I have to sit at the quintessenz booth. Not much space here, either, but at least electricity and friendly people. More reports will follow shortly.



The network is extremely flaky, as I had big problems posting this weblog entry.

In less than 3 hours, I'll be on my way to Berlin. Actually, first of all, I have to go to Vienna, where I then go to the airport, where I will take a plane to Berlin. At around 6 pm I should have reached Berlin. Checking out will take some time, so I expect to leave Berlin-Tegel not before 7 pm. Then first I will leave all my stuff at the hotel, and try to get my ticket for tomorrow. Without getting a ticket today, it will be extremely hard to get to the opening event early enough. The opening event is a must, since the official documentation movie about the Chaos Communication Camp will be presented, which I just have to see.