You know the end of the year is here again and it’s always tough to find any reasonable thing to do. This year could be different ;) During the December 27th to 30th, 2008 Berlin will hosts 25th Chaos Communication Congress.
I always wanted to either do my own stuff or see anything that is related to my own thoughts and get rid of the common s…. at this time. If all things goes well will spend those otherwise boring days learn something interesting.

Quote: The 25th Chaos Communication Congress (25C3) is the annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). It takes place at the bcc Berliner Congress Center in Berlin, Germany. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics and attracts a diverse audience of thousands of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopians from all around the world. The 25C3s slogan is “Nothing to hide”.

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/

This is bit out of the common topics on this site, but once it’s done it has to shared?
I’m happy to test the iPhone for a while and find out the GPS pretty useful. Because the iPhone use Google maps you have to download the current map tiles on the way and it cost money. I’m the type who always tries to find the way how to customize things for him self …bla bla bla.

Here is the cheap solution.

Luckily the iPhone is on the market for a while and people have same needs. If you have your iPhone Jailbroken the go to Cydia (freeware) and download OfflineMaps (freeware).

The tricky part is that you have to make the map for your self first and then upload it to you iPhone ;) You can either use the GMDL (freeware) application and make the maps of you desired location or you can download (207MB) mine I have made for my self. I made two maps, one in high resolution for Prague and one for whole Czech republic in lower resolution.. the map is not totally complete it lacks the lower part of Czech Republic, the one that touches the Slovak republic, but if you live in the same suburb as I do, this map will be fine for you ;)
The use the DiskAid app, (freeware) plug the iPhone to your PC with Windows (sorry guys but just for now) and navigate to /var/mobile/media/maps place the content of this file there. So that the Maps folder will includes two folders cz & ph, each of them with two files com.apple.Maps.plist & MapTiles.sqlitedb. Go to Your OfflineMaps chose those maps and you are done. Enjoy.
The GPS localisation system works without the Wifi, Edge, cellular data connection, so if not less you always find your self on the map and then you will know where you are.

“I Have A Dream“

Martin Luther King, Jr., August 28, 1963

Hello all interested in 3D virtual world. Another, this time Czech Blender conference is on the way. Under some circumstances this conference will be more of Game engine part of Blender, but fortunately not only. If you are interested more in animation stuff, consider these presentations as well, because you never know when you’ll have to animate something that could be done by the realtime simulation. For people who have just started there is also Basic lighting lecture which will be interesting even for Blender geeks and more and more, check the schedule.
The Czech Blender conference 2008 will happen on 7th October 2008 from noon to 7PM again on Academy of Fine Arts Prague.

Schedule is:

13:00 / Jan Mucska (o—-o): Game engine in the commercial field
14:00 / Peter Nespesny (Psychotron): Problematics of architecture visualisation
15:00 / Martin Schrimpel (G_Taurus): Basic lighting 2.46
16:00 / Jan Kudrnáč (XHN): Sculpt a normal map generarion
17:00 / Jan Kaláb (Pitel): Physical simulations
18:00 / Adam Preisler (Alfisko): Textures and modeling formost for games

/tmp/ is a fusion of Slovak & Czech music creative artist.

We would like to introduce you some known & unknown however interesting music individuals born, live and work in our central european suburb. Some of those unknown artist are brought by my shivers radio project.

11/07/2008 Friday, 20:00-5:00, Bunkr Parukářka - Prague 3 - Žižkov
Tram/Bus 26, 9, 5, 55, 58, 136
Entry 100kč
CZECH ATTACK SECOND EDITION stage

20h00 / Juraj / minimalist reproduction (SK)
21h30 / Milan Guštar / experimental programing (CZ)
23h00 / AY-RIDERS / realtime 8-bit show (UK, PL, RUS a CZ)
00h30 / BBNU / turntablism (CZ)

SLOVAK ATTACK SECOND EDITION stage
Ambient/noise/electro/dubstep/click’n'cuts/idm/neonmetal

20h45 / Jack/Jack / noise positive (SK a CZ)
22h15 / Voise Over Noise / anythingoes (SK)
23h45 / batcha de mental / melodramatic popular song (SK)
01h15 / Jack Jackson5 / submisivní DJ performance (SK a CZ)

Digilab presents a conference focused on licences, namely Creative Commons license and copy-left. Conference will cover themes such as Czech & Slovak license legislation, show some advantages and disadvantages on practical examples, even people from  Wikipedia core will come and finally will have a chance to see and hear the point of view of Slovak hysteria.sk fellow.

4/11/2008 BIOKO

17:00 / Lukáš Gruber: Creative Commons & Czech legislation
17:30 / Dušan Barok: Creative Commons in Slovak republick
18:00 / Jan Mucska: Creative Commons from practical view
18:30 / Josef Aujezdský: Law aspects of Open Source Licences
19:00 / Petr Kadlec: Licence not only on Wikipedia
19:30 / Adam Hazdra: Free Culture
20:00 / Pajkus: anti-copyright hysteria.sk

flayer

This post might seems out off topic but I think it’s a nice project so I want you to know it as well.

The story:
I wanted to buy  The TAO TE CHING book written by Lao tzu so I went straight to Amazon and found there an old translation form 1943 hardcover. You know once I want to buy a book it has to have grate cover :), but the picture isn’t presented there so I went on searching and first found http://www.taoteching.org/ where is all the poetry in nice order but then I found thegutenberg.org site. There are no pictures of any covers as far as I know but couple free book about 3 millions ;). They are in txt, pdf an many more formats, so if you like to read something and don’t want to wait for delivery or you don’t mind the blinking screen when you read give it try.

Ok guys, I have been hacked twice within the last half a year, they hacked first my old project site http://bfight.org and now my http://emblem.cc. This all means and they are more then right I do not mind what those sites do, or how they look like, even more the system and the security is, week (I did some things but surely not enough). It’s a pretty hard work make the site to be secure all the time, and once you have more of them as I do…. ;)

Thanks to hackers, they point in to black, you are right!

One month took us to make a full 3D game. The game has to support Czech athletes in the upcoming Paralympics games in Beijing 2008. WILL was released thanks to the sponsorship donation from the general partner of the Czech Paralympics Team, RWE Company & MARK/BBDO.

The game has ..”four chapters. We live the game through eyes of the main hero, who accompanies all situations by his internal voice to identify with the topic the most. After an apparently amiable opening when we go swimming, the first level becomes more dramatized and we suffer an injury, with which we shall fight further on.”

see and read more on my page http://o—-o.info/will/ or right on the project homepages http://powerofwill.cz or http://silavule.cz.

Believe or not we get the CELL right on the Mustek, the hearth of Prague.  If you go by under the sun or during the rainy day it might be worthy to cover your head for a while, and especially if you don’t wanna spend any money in shop or classical gallery then this is the right place for you.

the schedulle is:
Darina Alster - 13death
Adéla Svobodová - Friday
Tamara Moyzes - Miss roma
Aleš Čermák - Artist
KOKO - Salma
Petra Pětiletá - Nic není horké jak se uvaří
Jakub Nepras - Jízda
Klara Jirková - Big sister
Vilem Novák - den2a
Viktor Takáč - Panorama
Klára Tasovská - Ha Can
Josef Bareš - Precious Petals
Eva Jiřička - Gardens
George Hladík - Soused
David Landa - Rozhovor
Martin Boyer - Swan 1
Adela Babanová - Dekodér
Krieg - Zavření
Ivan Svoboda - Musca Pallida

(it might grows ..you know artists )

http://output.cz