Death of a X200s Display

Attraction is...

... if you still talk to her.

(I made her crawl on the floor and whimper, though.)

Reflect Yourself

Mayday 2008 was a total blast, DJ Korsakoff made a hell of a performance. Eventhough I didn't sleep the last 30 hours or so, I'm still rather awake due to the coffinated water they sold. I'll update this blog post with some own trashy mobile phone video later.

We are still here!

My ISP Blocks YouPorn

Arcor, my home ISP, yesterday started blocking YouPorn. Welcome to China!

Dinner for Five

Last Saturday, my mother and me (visiting at her during the weekend) got guests: Janine's parents and herself were coming over for some nice dinner. Some photos are available.

Entry: `Stremel Lachs'
Make some simple Guacamole based of Avocado: Mix the squashed Avocado with lemon juice and salt, that's it. Serve the raw salmon filet with the Guacamole and some baguette, offer a twist of lemon optionally to the salmon.

Main Course: `Rindersteak an Haricot-Verde, Rosmarienkartoffeln'
Fry the steak in a very hot pan in olive oil, but not too long, so it's medium. Cook string beans and roll them into bacon, fry these little packs in a pan. Cook potatoes in the skin, remove the skin and bake them with rosemary and olive oil in the oven. Serve all together with a sauce based on the steak's brew, cream and a little bit of smokey BBQ sauce (thanks Ryan!).

Dessert: `Tiramisu'
The nice Italian desert, don't ask me for a recipe -- I didn't do it and I don't know how to!

Der Sinn des Lebens

I've got a terrible hangover, but it seems I'm not the only one, who drunk too much last night. Seems, they've lost a letter at Google:

But #nepenthes has the answer: < olsson-> stop worrying about worms! do some disco dancing instead! ;-)

Carnival

Like all good Rheinland folks, I'll be unresponsible for any business-related requests the next seven days. It's carnival! \o/

Crazy0r

Work is driving me crazy. And all that annoying University Math on top of it.

The only thing keeping me up is the di.fm Hardcore stream; and that one is surely not keeping me away from insanity.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! O_o

New GPG Key

Due to the recent theft of my laptop and the HDD crash on my desktop, I have a new GPG key (and embarrasingly no revocation certificate for the old one):

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23c3 Congress in Berlin

Just a short note: I will be at this year's Chaos Congress 23c3 holding a short presentation on «Automated Botnet Detection and Mitigation». Besides visiting Berlin with my girlfriend, I'll also be visiting the Blue Men Group.

Give me a shout if you're also going to 23c3 and want to meet up there!

Computer Science Studies in Aachen

Studying is mostly fun, got a lot of new people to know in my first two weeks in Aachen. Lectures aren't too complicated yet and doing some math is fun so far. The `Programming' lecture is annoying for anybody, who touched a sourcecode before, though. Anyway, attendance is not enforced -- it's up to you and in fact, I haven't attended a single `Programming' lecture yet.

But studying is also time intensive. Working as Anti-Virus developer is also a time intensive job (that becomes very difficult, if you don't have Internet in your flat because your ISP bitches). But the dream of the perfect behavioural detection engine is just to great, to give it up just because of university!

The backside of all this is that my OpenSource development projects have to step back a bit. But the mwcollect Alliance will survive! ;)

Vacation in Holland

Starting from today, I will be some three or four days in the Netherlands for vacation with my girlfriend. More specifically, we will be staying in her family's caravan in Kamperland.

If I already have the pictures of Tokyo at hand when I come back, I will post some here.

Reviewing Blachat Japan 06 / Tokyo

This trip was a blast! I already arrived on Wednesday -- one day before the conference -- and went out with Laurie from ShadowServer to do some shopping in Asakusa as he is a Tokyo local for two years now. Bought some nice stuff for my girlfriend and family there and also took the compulsionary tourist's fotos in front of one of the temples.

Later on that day, I went to Roppongi visiting the Gas Panic club, which really deserves the description ``foreigner meat market'' as it is called by some locals. I've been later on told by some other locals that it's not the most beautiful you'd get there, but nevertheless it would have been really easy as far as I can judge.

Thursday started with a huge hangover, a nearly missed press meeting and a hard one staying awake during the day, followed by going to bed right after the Blackhat social event. I talked to some people and attended some talks, as usual the topics at Blackhat were rather interesting but conferences are more for socializing...

Our talk at Friday morning went pretty well, apart the we totally messed up our botsnoopd demo as no botnets were showing activity and even #gentoo on FreeNode was silent during our presentation (we should have pre-recorded a video). So we could only show some simple management commands... Apart from that, it was said to be the second most popular presentation (right behind Joanna's talk on the virtualization rootkit), probably thanks to Thorsten's CWSandbox part of it.

The speakers party did not convince to much (especially not for 4500 Yen entrance fee), but we were going to the Air club later on were a Chicago DJ hat some insane set; we were there from 1:00 to 6:15, powered by Redbull and Orange Juice (and the other by Vodka Redbull, too). It was simply great.

So see you next year at some Blackhat conference! ;)

Blackhat Asia 2006 Last Preparations: botsnoopd

In order to pre-fix the jet-lag, I decided to work the whole night and sleep at the plane, so I'm ready to visit some stuff in Tokyo on Wednesday (my plane arrives 10:40 local time). Things that helped me so far are:

• Watching ``Crank'' in the Cinema at 23:00
• Bright Lights
• Splash of Ice-Cold Water into my face
• Taurine Shocks (-> Redbull)

But what the hell is that botsnoopd I'm working on? More on this later this week.

The Move Itself

Today, I had the final move to Aachen with most of my stuff. Thanks to the great help of several friends, this was a real blitzkrieg move. We had it all in the car from the first floor within fifteen minutes and managed it to get it all into the 4th floor again in one single hour. Thanks to Henrik, Philipp, Florian and Tobias at this place!

The opposite to this was my laminate maneuver: it took me nearly six hours to finish the remaining three quarters of the floor of my 16 square meters room. But it indeed looks great now and all I had to cut the too long boards was a tiny Aldi handsaw. Unfortunately, no pictures here.

Now I have finally chosen some IKEA stuff, but it's not ordered yet...

Moving to Aachen

«Moving is never fun!» is what they told me before and they seem to be right. Now that I will start studying computer science in Aachen, I decided to move there into a `flat share'. My new flatmate is Philipp (24 yrs), studying `Recycling Engineering' or whatever the correct translation would be.

Yesterday, we started to do my floor and found out that there was already four layers of floor stacked. Was less than not funny to remove all these, especially after carrying 35 square-meeters of laminate 2.5 kilometres through Aachen. I will post some pictures Philipp made, once I get my hands on them.