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Während die IFPI (Dachverband der Musikindustrie) gerade wieder ihre Kunden verklagt und sich wundert, warum die dann erst recht nichts mehr bei ihnen kaufen wollen, bringt die Punk-Band WIZO einen USB-Stick mit 5 bisher unveröffentlichten Tracks im MP3-Format (ganz ohne Digital Restriction Management) und einigen Extras wie Videos, Bildern & Gitarrentabs.
Aber die Musikindustrie wird's nie lernen. Sie vergraulen lieber ihre Kunden, statt zu versuchen, sie mit attraktiven Angeboten und kreativen Ideen zurückzugewinnen. Ich jedenfalls werd mir den USB-Stick kaufen. Den Verbrechern von RIAA, IFPI, MPAA und wie sie alle heißen, geb ich keinen Cent mehr.

Das goldene Stück Scheiße geht an Euch...

Yesterday I created a new PGP/GPG-Key for secure communication.
The default gnupg keys are 1024 bit DSA (Data Security Algorithm, based on the discrete logarithm problem). According to studies by famous cryptographs like Dan J. Bernstein or Adi Shamir, keys with 1024 bit for public key encryption based on factorisation or the discrete logarithm problem might be unsecure. Large institutions or companies with several millions available might be able to create special hardware to break such keys.
See http://www.cryptolabs.org/rsa/ for details.

You can get my new key, Key-ID --------, here. It is signed with the old one.

Key no longer used, use BBB51E42.

Today, I was at a talk held by Richard Stallman, the founder of the GNU project and ideological father of the free software movement, at the Lightwerk GmbH in Stuttgart.
The talk was about software patents. I was a bit disappointed, because it was only about the usual, obvious arguments about software patents, which probably all visitors of the talk already knew. I think RMS can tell much more important things about free software and the social and political impact of it.
Nevertheless, it was worth being there. A friend of mine took a picture of me and RMS, which you can see beside.
Oh, before I forget, support the protest of the FFII against software patents.

Diesen Spruch hab ich in einem Forum gefunden, ich poste ihn hier mal, weil ich das grad so gut nachempfinden kann:

Manchmal hasst man den am stärksten,
Den man am meisten liebt,
Weil er der einzige ist,
Der einem wirklich weh tun kann !

As there is not much information available about this subject, I started writing a tutorial about how to create 4k intros in linux. The sections about executable packing and using gcc are finished, assembler-section will follow.
Get it here

Friday, about 16.00 we (StyX, TS and me, in the scene known as Ctulhu) arrived at the Evoke, after a railway trip with the deutsche bahn and a reservation in a waggon that didn't exist (but that wasn't a real problem, we found a nice place with an electricity plug in the train).
Well, usually gamers are not wanted on demoparties. But on evoke, you can see people playing all the time violent games. REALLY violent. The PainStation. It's basically an advanced Pong-game, but the special gimmick is, if you miss your ball, you'll be hurt by heat, electro shocks or hits. Really fun.
Well, later the evening, it seems that some evil hackers took over the evoke-webserver (I surely have nothing to do with that ;-).
To be continued...

The last few days I was at the aKademy, the KDE world konference.
As I missed the talks from the weekend, there wasn't much of interest, just hanging around with some nice guys and hacking on our notebooks.
Tomorrow I'll travel to Evoke.

My blog is now online.