HAR2009
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<html><body><p>This year was the first time I ever went to a hacker conference. One of the more famous ones is organised every 4 years in the Netherlands. This year the event was called <a href="http://har2009.org/">Hacking at Random 2009</a>, it took place in the very nice little town of Vierhouten in the National Park called De Veluwe.
A couple of months ago my friend <a href="http://dewinter.com/">Brenno</a> asked me to join him in starting a small radiostation for the duration of the event. I must admit I wasn't expecting much, something like my pirating days at Twilight Radio, but Brenno started well by applying for all kinds of licenses so it was 100% legal.
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And then on Wednesday evening I arrived, totally confused on what to do, where my tent was going to be pitched. I picked a spot, put the tent up and left to find Brenno. I found him in the middle of a tennis court, with two radio studios and a huge tent that was to be our home base for the rest of the event. Below is a selection of the best photos I've taken, most of them are <a href="http://fm.har2009.org/">HARFM</a> related, others were taken from around the HARFM "compound".
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Our intrepid leader and CEO, Brenno de Winter
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The first evening started nicely with some guys flying quadcopters. I want one.
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Most of the campsite was beautifully lit by Artevent, but the participants also added their stuff
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Like the CCC tent where a DJ played every night until LATE.
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PsychiC, the HARFM CTO in his element.
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Ubik was too tired to ride the wheels of steel for a whole show, but with the help of PsychiC and ??? he managed a wicked Drum 'n Bass set. I really enjoyed it. All three of them mixed songs while Ubik also chose the music. Real vinyl... Hmmmmmmmmm, droooool....
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PsychiC and ??? enjoying Ubik's mixing.
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HARFM and <a href="security.nl">security.nl</a> invited a company to show their harddisk shredder to HAr2009. Here's the owner of the company explaining how the machine works to Joram Polak of security.nl
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Chantal and Chloe enjoying some French fries
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Aldert Hazenberg, the boss of HAR2009
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PsychiC and some of his friends organised a Lasergame on saturday night. Here he is explaining his troops how to eliminate each other.
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PsychiC and Sven assembling the guns
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The troops at ease
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The troops trying to kill yours truly
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Koen Martens working the CD player during his Pinball radio show
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Pinball guy during Koen's show
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Silent disco.
Remember: ze sheik unsilenced ze silent disco!
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The CCC tent and surroundings on the last day of HAR2009
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Barry van Kampen
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And again, the host with the most.
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Sven, the CNO, hard at work making (up?) some news.
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PsychiC
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Chloe, totally fed up with all the grown ups around. She thought she could do it better by herself, and she was right.
I really loved doing HARFM and also enjoyed what little I saw of HAR2009. There's definitely going to be a next time, probably for both of them. See you guys!</p></body></html>
