The astronomers did have the same kind of technical problems most people here have. "Didn't you bring that connector?" "No, but there's a way to work around that." "The server broke down." "Guys, switch off those lights, Jupiter has dissappeared from my view!" "Those midges....." At midnight, people gathered around the telescopes to watch Jupiter, the double star in Ursa Major, and many other objects. Nobody knows what astronomy has to do with HIP, but it's fun to set up telescopes, install ccd camera's and connect them to the web. I wonder when they'll hack a star off the sky. All night long (I fell asleep around 3am), we could hear people enter the camping field and put up their tent. I wonder whether they first unpacked or first set up their network. I suspect the latter. When we woke up very late, around nine, the field had almost filled up with tents, and many more were still coming in. A cue had formed at the entrance of the area. People arrived by car and by bus. ----- OK, guys. It happened. While writing this diary, my computer started to behave strangely, even more strangely, and when I rebooted, the system said " there's a user connected to your computer, disconnect them?". Now that's strange. At home, or at the office (which in my case is the same), one of my computers can be connected to another one. But here, who would connect to my computer? At a hackers conference, who would connect to my computer while it's connected to the local network and the internet? Hmmm. I didn't really inspect my system for security. I did leave some filesharing open. I'm pretty sure I didn't have my c drive open, but I'm not sure. Anyway, the drive did turn out to be shared. When the computer said "can't find system files" or something like that, I knew something was wrong. ctrl-alt-del caused "corrupted system files", choose safe restart. When in dos mode, there was no windows directory on my windows machine. Oh god, no windows diskettes here, we do have a cdrom but i don't have a portable cdrom player. But, hang on. Why is there a windoze directory on my computer? It's a joke. Renaming the windoze directory to "windows" should work... And it did. We're at HIP here. Hacking allowed, but no damage please to computers of HIP participants. I'm very curious who did this. Now I know it's a joke, I can laugh. I was stupid enough as to not protect my computer. They hacked it, but were kind enough as to cause no real damage. This is HIP, guys. After all this, I was just in time for Rop Gonggrijps lecture on spam. Which I attend right now. Next page