On Thursday night, a party with some electronic music takes place at c-base. It’s a crashed spaceship in Berlin-Mitte containing aliens, artists and nerds. It’s just some hundred meters away (Rungestr. 48).

There is an Eventphone Phonebook search plugin for Firefox available at www.eventphone.de/firefox.php. It allows you to use the search-field for looking up DECT-Phone numbers.

We have about 16 GBit/s Upstream, provided by multiple upstreams – and our peaks are not even reaching one GBit. It really is a shame – so please, use our bandwidth, it is intended to be used.
Useful purposes are strongly preferred (read: no DDOS bullshit or spamming ;)), so for example seeding the Wikipedia DVD might be a really good idea. If you have another cool idea to use more bandwidth, place it here in the comments.

Am Donnerstag findet um 12 Uhr eine kurzfristig anberaumte Podiumsdiskussion zu freiheitlichen Grundfragen statt. Anlass ist die bis vor kurzem noch unabwendbar scheinende Videoüberwachung des Congresses, welche erst kurz vor Beginn der Veranstaltung verhindert werden konnte.

An der deutschsprachigen Diskussion nehmen padeluun, Frank Rosengart, Andy Müller-Maghun und Jens Ohlig teil.

If you have some pegs or clothespin (Wäscheklammer) at home, please bring them to the event. The Peg-DHCP system needs some more – and there aren’t anymore to by at Alexanderplatz. Please leave them at the NOC-Helpdesk in the hackcenter or the C-Ring.

There is an open discussion at midnight at the Wau Holland Stiftung about.

The timeline of fukamis and Markus Beckedahls lecture about the Rootkit, which Sony included in its music CDs, is now available online on netzpolitik.org.

Lightning Talks are concept which was introduced at 21C3. You can quickly show up your project and raise attention for it.

The Lightning Talks are 5-minute talks by various people combined in a set of 10 talks in one hour. We do a set each day in Saal 4 at four o’clock. The set for tomorrow is intended to be used by ideas for Lighting Talks which spring up on the congress.

So now is your chance to register a Lighting Talk at the wiki page.

What has changed in more than 20 years on this event? You can get a little idea about that while looking at the invitation to the first congress in 1984. A hole Datenschleuder was used for this.

Please write your name or nickname on your badge. That is very helpful if you lose your badge and someone shall find it (otherwise you have to buy a new one and that’s not nice). Markers can be found at booth infodesks an the cash point. It’s also useful to stabilize the eyelet of the envelope of your badge with a bit gaffa-tape.

Apparently most journalists which attended our lectures yesterday are now back at their working places and doing their job – some good, some bad (hey, we do have way more than 36 women at the congress, and our Wireless LAN is working well, but tim already complained about that journalist ;)). Sadly, this means for this poor web server that several quite big news sites all over the world are now linking events.ccc.de, and the load on this machine is going to hurt. Our countermeasures are working really good at the moment, but it might be possible that we have to shut down part of this website, …

During the 22C3 conference, taking place in Berlin from December 27 – 30, LinuxTag Association invites all friends and supporters of Free Software to an informal get-together, looking back to events and results of 2005. Doors open at 8 o’clock p.m. at newthinking store, Tucholsky Str. 48, 10117 Berlin on Wednesday (day 2 of 22C3). Drinks and some finger food will be provided. The is no cover charge. All friends of Free software are welcome. Prior registration is not necessary.

The party venue is some 15 minutes from Alexanderplatz (where 22C3 takes place). Take the S-Bahn to Friedrichstraße …