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During the HackerSpaceFestival 2008, we installed a room with a TES92 ElectroSmog FieldMeter (50MHz – 3.5GHz) to be used to measure the Magnetic Field from different cellphones during a call. The people were asked to make a call with their cellphone at less than 5 cms from the field meter. The TES 92 had been verified using a spectrum analyzer and modulation generator at 1v/m. The EU regulation usually make the measurement using W/kg.

Please find below the results from the different cellphones :

Cell phone EMF Results

Jean-Marc Manach d’InternetActu fait un petit article sur HSF2008.

Hackers et sans complexe | InternetActu.net

Un petit article en Français sur le Hacker Space Fest 2008 par 01 net.

01net. - Tentative d’intrusion de hackers à Vitry-sur-Seine

Today was the first day of HSF2008. For those who cannot be at the lab, you can follow the event via video streaming on http://justin.tv/hackerspace/.

Les pre inscriptions pour le HackerSpaceFestival sont desormais ouvertes depuis le site HackerSpace.net depuis la page :

http://www.tmplab.org/subscribe/

Le site du tmplab se prepare aux differentes conferences, workshops et activites performances artistiques en esperant vous y voir nombreux. Les aides sont les bienvenus dans les jours precedents le HSF en suivant les activites depuis l`IRC #frlab sur Freenode.

See ya there.

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We are pleased to announce that registration for the Hacker Space Festival is now open !

Space is limited ! So, if you plan to attend, please fill in the subscription form to make sure you will get a place. You will be given a registration number that you should note down and give at the entrance.

The entrance fee is at your discretion, you can give whatever you want. Using the online form, you will be billed via Paypal. The recommended donation is 50 EUR for the whole event, in order to cover the expenses of the conferences.

To subscribe: http://www.tmplab.org/subscribe/

We are looking forward to seeing you at HSF !

The Maker Faire is an event that occurs every six month and alternate between San Mateo and Austin, Texas. It is organized by the famous Make magazine http://makezine.com/ .

The goal of the event is to be a mix of Arts, Crafts, Engineering, Green Tech, Music, Science & Technology.

I was a lucky guy to be here for the Maker Faire in San Mateo, a city in the Silicon Valley between San Francisco & San Jose. The weather was perfect, sunny, perfect temperature.

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What would the Internet look like without hackers? What would
computing look like without free and open source software? What would
the culture look like with DRM and closed media channels everywhere?
Where do art and technology merge? Would Gilbert Simondon be happy if
he were alive today? Many questions will be debated during the first
Hacker Space Fest from the 16th to the 22nd June 2008 near Paris, in
the industrial outskirts of Vitry-sur-Seine.

The first Hacker Space Fest (HSF) will be held at the /tmp/lab near
Paris, France in June 2008. The goal of this festival is to bring
together people from many cultural and technological backgrounds and
from different Hacker Spaces and Autonomous zones in France and
Europe (and from beyond, if they can attend) to share and show what’s
going on.

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After the BackTrack3 Live SD card for EEE, I continued the distribution exploration with the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) operating system on their brand new XO laptops and their slick and simple GUI called Sugar.

Before jumping into “did this, done that”, current advances in SD card and USB memory sticks sizes, bootable distribution and virtualization take computing to a different level.

Remember when you use to insert a MSDOS diskette into your computer to boot it? Each new operating system could be booted on the same old PC by merely changing the diskette and rebooting? Of course, there were not as many OS as now. This is where the fun begin.

Now, a child can have “his own computer” by just possessing a SD-card. All his changes to his environment will be persistent. He will be able to add programs without depending or affecting anyone. 2 Gb SD card are as cheap as 10 euros now. On such a card, you can have OLPC Sugar, Ubuntu or Debian. And guess what, these are not mutually exclusive. For proof is my experiment by Booting my EEE pc with Xubuntu running Sugar GUI borrowed from standard OLPC / XO distribution. These SD or USB storage are bootable even if they are formatted as VFAT, that means, readable on a standard Windows PC.

On top of this, Kevin’s SD card or USB key may also store a Virtual Machine application (Qemu or Virtual Box are free alternatives to VMware) which may enable him to run his own environment without rebooting daddy’s computer. Such freedom may transform PCs into a commodity where you actually boot your own environment.

Speaking of which, I did some test also running OLPC XO Fedora Core-based distribution in VMware Fusion on my MacBook and it runs nicely, without crashes or else.

Conférence en français samedi 16/02, 21h-22h dans le cadre de Economie 0

Philippe Langlois parlera des hackers spaces & des initiatives utilisant l’art et les technologies pour la création hybride dans le domaine de l’information, de l’open source, de l’activisme, des technologies et de l’économie:

“Messages contradictoires, fausses identités, hacking, technologies disruptives. Ce n’est pas seulement le hacking mais tout le domaine de la culture, de la communication et des codes et symboles qui renaissent toujours plus vite avec de nouveaux messages, de nouvelles techniques de communications, et donc leur lot de hacks associés.

Les années 2000 montrent qu’au dela de la mort du hacking technique par son absorption par le domaine de la sécurité, le hack renait par une approche encore plus générale, celle de la culture. Les détournements se multiplient, utilisent des noms différents, emergent et disparaissent de plus en plus vite.

• Comment les hack labs et les initiatives pirates fournissent des alternatives au systême central de pensée?
• Comment modifier et et faire muter le blob général dans lequel les sociétés commerciales géantes et les réseaux de communication, si nous ne faisons rien, réinstalleraient une nouvelle royauté?
• Quels sont les outils pratiques et simples que nous pouvons utiliser pour agir dans notre société?
• Quelle est la situation dans d’autres pays en Europe et dans le monde, notamment dans les pays occidentaux et dans les pays en voie de développement?

Lors de la conférence, des exemples pratiques seront examinés et de nouvelles initiatives révélées.”