STRAIGHTHATE LIVE FRIDAY 25th January 2007

LIVE @ AN KLUB FFFRIDAY 25jan08

STRAIGHTHATE (death/grind/hardcore - Athens)
FORMIKATION (grindcore - Athens)
PROFANE PRAYER (blackmetal - Lamia)

KOMMPOUND feature @ UMAN MAG, FORGARDUR HELVITIS @ METAL HAMMER GREECE

• From KOMMPOUND myspace blog: "Yeah it is pretty weird I know, but latest issue of greek mainstream mag UMAN has an artikle entitled "HELLENIC VOMIT DOLLS" ("HELLENIC" was supposed to be written with a "K" in the first place). It's about the new lokal noise akts, and KOMMPOUND is documented and praised! Featured as well are our brothers PASCAL CRETAIN, HELLBOY106 & FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE. Check it out, you wont get disappointed - you'll get as a bonus plenty of half-naked chicks. An online preview of the artikle here."
• Latest issue of METAL HAMMER GREECE features an interview (+review) with Iceland's finest FORGARDUR HELVITIS.

24th Chaos Communication Congress lecture about console/Xbox360 hacking

People interested in free thinking, science and hacking are possibly familiar by now with the legendary Chaos Computer Club (CCC). Check out the 24th Chaos Communication Congress's webpage, there were a lot of interesting lectures and workshops in different tech and more diverse science/social fields, from DIY survival after a nuclear war or the uprising of the robots (!), to traditional hacking stuff, protection of the individual privacy and rights in our technological society, etc. There's video and audio recordings of the whole event available that you can download.

I was particularly interested in the "Console & Xbox 360 Hacking Lecture" (an abstract of it here: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/events/2279.en.html). You can watch the video transcript here: http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EEAllAlZVuRLhOzpWe.php. It's interesting that they highlight the fact that it's useless that console manufacturers disable their hardware from running Linux/homebrew software, because it's going to be hacked in order to do it anyway. They also stress out that PLAYSTATION 3 comes with the possibility to run Linux and homebrew code embedded, and that is possibly a reason why it hasn't be hacked yet.