22C3 is coming up

Wow, the end of 2005 is coming, so - same procedure as every year :-D
In my case that will be the 22nd Chaos Communication Congress. Just finished booking the train ticket and hotel.

22C3 Logo

The line-up of interesting talks is quite overwhelming this year. There are a lot of talks about buffer overflows and related topics - I am very curious about new approaches and developments concerning that craftwork...

The degree of collateral damage for this years congress will also be very amusing :-D. Last year we got a mass defacement for over 18.000 websites. Well nothing spectacular, but it hit the news and makes up the reputation...

If you are interested in digital life and/or computer security you may want to check out the 22C3 webblog or the schedule.

You also attend the 22C3? If you like get in touch with me... I am always happy to meet new and interesting people.

Creating Windows EXE-Files under Linux

Sometimes a cross-compile environment can be very handy. Sam Lantinga form the libsdl.org project made a shell script (build-cross.sh) that makes it very easy to setup an GCC cross-compile environment for MinGW.

I used the follwing changes for the script:

  • GCC_VERSION=3.4.2-20040916-1
  • BINUTILS=binutils-2.15.91-20040904-1
  • MINGW=mingw-runtime-3.3
  • W32API=w32api-2.5

The EXE-files are a little bit large in size, but when you strip them the size is reduced drastically.