Showing posts with label lca. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lca. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
LCA2008: Linux.conf.au 2009 in Tasmania
Next years Linux.conf.au (2009) will take in Tasmania so be sure to not miss the call4papers :)
LCA2008: Wii-pong by Rusty Russels
This video was taken on the Open-day at Linux.conf.au 2008. It shows Rusty Russell's Pong-game which can be played on any surface it is projected to. The game is based on the techniques researched by Jonny Chung Lee.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
LCA2008: Open day
... some pictures of the open day at Linux.conf.au 2008
Video of the famous Reprap 3D printer (http://reprap.org)
Freedom Lovers !!!!
Video of the famous Reprap 3D printer (http://reprap.org)
Freedom Lovers !!!!
Saturday, February 2, 2008
LCA2008: Hacking on lguest (2)
This is a video from the "hacking on lguest" tutorial at linux.conf.au 2008 in Melbourne.
Lguest is a new and very light virtualization technology created by Rusty Russels.
It is very fast and basically allows to run "linux on linux". The video shows the lguest-host Qemu-image which was provided by the lguest-tutorial at linux.conf.au 2008. After the lguest-host is booted up a lguest virtual-machine is started by a simple user-space launcher. It also shows the simple hypercall printing out "Hey Ho Lguest" which was implemented during the tutorial.
Cool stuff by Rusty !
Lguest is a new and very light virtualization technology created by Rusty Russels.
It is very fast and basically allows to run "linux on linux". The video shows the lguest-host Qemu-image which was provided by the lguest-tutorial at linux.conf.au 2008. After the lguest-host is booted up a lguest virtual-machine is started by a simple user-space launcher. It also shows the simple hypercall printing out "Hey Ho Lguest" which was implemented during the tutorial.
Cool stuff by Rusty !
LCA2008: Talks finished, Google-party and Open-day
After the last presentations and talks at Linux.conf.au 2008 everybody was heading over to the big party sponsored by Google. Nice !
... sadly we noticed that somehow the catering service stopped giving out beer at 8.30 p.m ! What the h... ??
Sorry, but no party without beer so we grouped up with some people and found a nice pub in Brunswick. That was fun and we had a great night.
But LCA 2008 is NOT over yet but opening its doors to the public today. Lots of interesting projects will be presented and everybody is invited to join the "freedom lovers".
... sadly we noticed that somehow the catering service stopped giving out beer at 8.30 p.m ! What the h... ??
Sorry, but no party without beer so we grouped up with some people and found a nice pub in Brunswick. That was fun and we had a great night.
But LCA 2008 is NOT over yet but opening its doors to the public today. Lots of interesting projects will be presented and everybody is invited to join the "freedom lovers".
Friday, February 1, 2008
OLPC mobile phone
At Linux.conf.au 2008 a bunch of OLPC's were given out as present. The only premise was to either do something cool with it or to pass it over to somebody else who will do something cool with it. Nice !
... some of the guys actually seemed to "misuse" the OLPC's as mobile phones. Strange evolution, mobile phones actually seemed to get bigger and bigger.
... some of the guys actually seemed to "misuse" the OLPC's as mobile phones. Strange evolution, mobile phones actually seemed to get bigger and bigger.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Fire alarm at Linux.conf.au 2008
We just experienced a fire alarm at the Old Arts building used by Linux.conf.au.
Luckily it could be resolved quite quick, nobody got hurt and the talks continuing.
Funny thing was that the alarm ring seemed to be in a kind of high-available mode because it tried to restart again and again even after it has being turned off.
.... reminded me to yesterday when a small bread on the toaster in the hotel room immediately started the fire alarm. I was flying downstairs to the reception because i read before that it is directly connected to the fire brigade and that you have to pay a real high fine if they are coming out. Luckily it was only the smoke alarm in the room and not the fire alarm of the hotel. Puuuah.
Now i am looking forward to the Penguin Dinner tonight which will be at the tonight at the night market in Melbourne. The social events (and of course the partners program) of LCA rocks !
Luckily it could be resolved quite quick, nobody got hurt and the talks continuing.
Funny thing was that the alarm ring seemed to be in a kind of high-available mode because it tried to restart again and again even after it has being turned off.
.... reminded me to yesterday when a small bread on the toaster in the hotel room immediately started the fire alarm. I was flying downstairs to the reception because i read before that it is directly connected to the fire brigade and that you have to pay a real high fine if they are coming out. Luckily it was only the smoke alarm in the room and not the fire alarm of the hotel. Puuuah.
Now i am looking forward to the Penguin Dinner tonight which will be at the tonight at the night market in Melbourne. The social events (and of course the partners program) of LCA rocks !
Combining the virtual and real world
Today Jonathan Oxer presented at Linux.conf.au 2008 about "Joining Second Life to the Real World". Really cool stuff !
He demonstrated how to interact with the virtual objects inside Second Life using "real world" objects using various small hardware-hacks and making use of the famous Arduino microcontroller. One example was to use a serial RFID-reader, connected to a network socket, to open/close a virtual door within the Second Life virtual reality (John actually has a RFID chip implanted in his arm).
Actually his talk remembers me to my "Data-center within Second Life" project which i was working on about a year ago. My idea that time was to rebuild a "real world" data-center infra-structure inside Second Life, connect it to an openQRM server and enable the administration of real servers from within Second Life.
Basically it is about using the 3D virtual reality of SL as a user-interface for real world objects and/or applications. It worked out pretty well and i even gave a presentation including a live-demonstration within Second Life.about this openQRM sub-project
Here some links to videos of this virtual presentations:
part 1
part 2
part 3
Please find some pictures from this event here.
...... mhmmmm, guess i was "too early" with my idea ;)
He demonstrated how to interact with the virtual objects inside Second Life using "real world" objects using various small hardware-hacks and making use of the famous Arduino microcontroller. One example was to use a serial RFID-reader, connected to a network socket, to open/close a virtual door within the Second Life virtual reality (John actually has a RFID chip implanted in his arm).
Actually his talk remembers me to my "Data-center within Second Life" project which i was working on about a year ago. My idea that time was to rebuild a "real world" data-center infra-structure inside Second Life, connect it to an openQRM server and enable the administration of real servers from within Second Life.
Basically it is about using the 3D virtual reality of SL as a user-interface for real world objects and/or applications. It worked out pretty well and i even gave a presentation including a live-demonstration within Second Life.about this openQRM sub-project
Here some links to videos of this virtual presentations:
part 1
part 2
part 3
Please find some pictures from this event here.
...... mhmmmm, guess i was "too early" with my idea ;)
Linus Torvalds at linux.conf.au 2008 in Melbourne
Here a pic of Linus Torvalds enjoying linux.conf.au 2008
... a quote from my wife :
"Until now, no groupies; seems Linus is save this year"
... a quote from my wife :
"Until now, no groupies; seems Linus is save this year"
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