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All archived Notacon talks are available for free. Fetch 'em via HTTP or .torrent.

Talks given by Blockparty speakers are included. Enjoy!

All archived Notacon talks are available for free. Fetch 'em via HTTP or .torrent.

Talks given by Blockparty speakers are included. Enjoy!

All archived Notacon talks are available for free. Fetch 'em via HTTP or .torrent.

Talks given by Blockparty speakers are included. Enjoy!

Does april 2006 count as before?

The archive of the talk is here: [mp3], [avi]. Essentially, most of the webservers in these things are vulnerable to all sorts of mischief. If you can own the underlying OS, the sky's the limit.

Does april 2006 count as before?

The archive of the talk is here: [mp3], [avi]. Essentially, most of the webservers in these things are vulnerable to all sorts of mischief. If you can own the underlying OS, the sky's the limit.

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mp3 aviDavid CoughanourHajjiNets: Running an ISP in a War Zone

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mp3 aviDavid CoughanourHajjiNets: Running an ISP in a War Zone

This guy did an excellent presentation at Notacon about running a non profit isp in iraq. Available in mp3 or video format.

mp3 aviDavid Coughanour - HajjiNets: Running an ISP in a War Zone

Of course, a "confidence game" is unrelated to a "convention/conference", but somehow they both get shortened to "con".

Argh. --- that one's a conference/convention, but wishes to distance itself from your conventional perceptions of same.

Here's one picture of Fedora Chick user. Hotness, yes?

I wish I could go attend this! I hope they produce a DVD "best-of" release or something. Because downloading and installing and tweaking all the drivers to render it locally would be a pain in the ass.

Anyway, folks who're into novel uses of existing technology should take a look at Notacon, a yearly tech gathering in Ohio. You know you want to enter the Anything But Ethernet contest!

If there's interest from the Machinima community, I'm sure some projector time could be arranged. If some experienced animators would like to submit a presentation, the Call For Proposals is open! I'd love to see a public screening of a few films, and maybe an intro-and-how-to.

I wish I could go attend this! I hope they produce a DVD "best-of" release or something. Because downloading and installing and tweaking all the drivers to render it locally would be a pain in the ass.

Anyway, folks who're into novel uses of existing technology should take a look at Notacon, a yearly tech gathering in Ohio. You know you want to enter the Anything But Ethernet contest!

If there's interest from the Machinima community, I'm sure some projector time could be arranged. If some experienced animators would like to submit a presentation, the Call For Proposals is open! I'd love to see a public screening of a few films, and maybe an intro-and-how-to.

I've many times wished I was down in Columbus instead of here in Youngstown. I formed my own LUG http://www.youngstownlug.com/ after a year of driving to Akron and Cleveland for their various groups.

In short, you've got all kinds of great stuff right in your backyard that some of us would love to have.

As far as the state in general, there are FOURTEEN LUGs, Notacon http://notacon.org/ which happens every year up in Cleveland, and more Linux jobs then you would belive. Go do a few searches on the internet. I've come across dozens of places hiring Linux programmers and administrators. I know dozens of associates from various LUGs around the state whop make a living using Linux.

• Notacon http://notacon.org/ - annual hacker/art/technology convention in Cleveland
• Hamvention http://hamvention.org/ - Annual HAM radio festival in Dayton
• Ohio Linux Fest http://ohiolinux.org/- well, you already know about this one :)
• FOURTEEN LUGS!!! I couldn't believe it myself, but i found this out when doing research to help promote Linuxfest
• 2600 groups, Perl Mongers groups, Snort Users groups...all kinds of other assorted user groups.
• Countless amounts of businesses based around OSS. Pantek http://pantek.com/, Hurricane Labs http://hurricanelabs.com/, N2Net http://n2net.net/, several of our sponsors rely on OSS for their core business, and give quite a bit back to the community.

I'm one of the organizers this year, and I wanted to make sure that the following useful information made it out to people who are considering attending. We have worked our tails off this year to make sure that Ohio Linuxfest 2005 will be the best Linuxfest yet. So here are some things that you need to know to take full advantage of everything that we are providing.

1. 16 Hours of Fun (8:00 AM to Midnight) - Doors open at 8:00 AM, and the post-conference reception starts at 8:00 PM, complete with food and beverages (of the sudsy variety) generously provided by our Sponsors. Froggy, from http://www.notacon.org/ will be our DJ this year. Consider safety first! If you plan on drinking, don't drive. Consider one of the fine Hotels in the area, which brings us to...

2. Hotel Accommodations - http://www.ohiolinux.org/hotels.html. The Drury Inn Suites, directly attached to the Greater Columbus Convention Center, is the the official Ohio LinuxFest 2005 hotel. A group rate is available for limited number of rooms. BOOK EARLY! DO NOT WAIT!

3. Schedule - http://www.ohiolinux.org/schedule.html. There are now THREE conference tracts to choose from. Take some time and figure out what you want to attend in advance.

4. REGISTER NOW! - http://www.ohiolinux.org/register.html. The event is free, and registration is free, but onsite donations are encouraged and appreciated to help defray expenses. We need to know roughly how many people plan on attending (for Insurance and Legal reasons) and we also need to be able to let you know about new developments as they, well, develop!

5. Food - http://www.columbusconventions.com/food_food.htm. You will be within walking distance of a ton of options for Lunch and Dinner. The schedule allows for plenty of time to eat and socialize.

6. Spread The Love - http://www.ohiolinux.org/promotion.html. Get the word out! Aside from the regular contingent of Linux techies, we want to reach out to the educational and business worlds and help EDUCATE them about Linux and the Linux Community. Please help us as much as you can. Tell a friend, hand out some flyers, get your LUG involved!

7. Get Involved - http://www.ohiolinux.org/getinvolved.html. It takes a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to organize an event of this magnitude that can be enjoyed by so many, and we can use all the help we can get. It really is a labor of love. Join up with the Ohio LinuxFest team to participate in organizing this year's event, and help shape an event that will be remembered by many for years to come. To sign on with the team, please send a note to team@ohiolinux.org and introduce yourself!

See you on October 1st!

Be sure to be there for this wonderful presentation.

I think it's because the event isn't specifically targeted at hackers, like defcon is. You could call it a "hacker con", but it's not really. It's broader than that, with a lot of attention on art and community. There are definitely some hard technical talks, and plenty of hackers will be in attendance, but that's not to the exclusion of anyone else.

Read the schedule and the speaker biographies. I think you'll get a better sense of how things will play out, and why "hacker" is too narrow a term for this event. With everything from crypto to photoshop, electronic music to telephony, there should be a much more diverse audience than at events like defcon. (There was last year, at least!) Not everyone's going to want to see every talk, and that's deliberate.

While I'm posting, I should also shamelessly plug what's sure to be one of the weirdest contests ever. Are you creative, motivated, and skilled enough to make the winning entry?

You know, some of us who are presenting [http://www.notacon.org/speakers.html#irishmasms] are willing to do so without the shameless plugs... ;)

http://www.notacon.org/speakers.html#pakrul

Slashdot doesn't seem to allow anchors in links.

Here is a link to the page itself. You'll have to go to her actual blurb yourself.

Your link needs fixed

Anyway, I think this would be an interesting presentation to here. We see a lot of stories about how few chicks are in the technical fields, this would be a great opportunity to really answer some of those question about the why of the seeming lack of female influence.

Not only guys use computers, so this could really be a chance to grab a soapbox and make something heard!

Natocom is not what it used to be. I've been attending for the past couple of years seeing how it transformed into "just another con". I made a huge post at my blog and can't be arsed to copy/paste.

You can read it here. Just don't slashdot it damnit!

Shameless plug, I know, but I'll be speaking at NotACon on some of the more interesting aspects of the community I run, and other geeky pursuits. I'm betting this will be a huge opportunity to connect with others with similar interests.

I don't know if he's going to do that. However, we have a number of mp3s from the speakers last year on the website.

Do you know a lot about machinima, or are you interested enough to research its history, culture, present state, and future directions?

Would you like to introduce other curious geeks to machinima?

Are you unafraid of, or capable of drinking enough to be unafraid of, getting up in front of 20-50 of your peers to give a presentation?

You should come present at Notacon! It's a conference about technology, community, art, culture, hacking, music, and you. The call for papers is currently open. What would you like to talk about?

Unless you're right next door to Brazil, I'd suggest coming to Notacon instead. It's a fun mix of tech, art, culture, and community.

The Slashdot crowd ought to be particularly interested in the "Anything But Ethernet" contest. Network silliness is the goal. (Last year's winner was "IP over Voice", a speech-synth and recognition system.)

Take a look, come down to Ohio in April, and present!

Okay, hams have been playing fox-hunts for decades, and 802.11 is just another digital mode. What's the breakthrough here?

Try setting your phone number as the SSID and see who calls. (Works best with a throwaway number, of course.)

This is a good way to advertise geek gatherings. A pocket-sized AP perched near your local 2600 meeting works fine. As far as I know, Notacon, the technology conference is planning to toss a few APs up around Cleveland with SSIDs along the lines of "IfYouCanReadThisComeToTheHolidayInn".

I'm a bit dismayed at the lack of technical sophistication displayed by TFA. Battery, inverter, adapter, accesspoint? Most APs take straight 12v in, and are quite happy to run directly from a battery. That's much less wasteful and noisy than the roundabout method. The WRT54G/GS rev 2.0 is stable down to about 4.5v input, long after the inverter would've shut itself down.

Many modern APs have enough brains to act as a pretty sophisticated standalone server too, without an uplink. With an extra meg of storage, you could run a telnet BBS or whatever, right on the AP. Or you could be sneaky, and implement a rolling SSID, or FakeAP, or have the thing hide itself when it hears a NetStumbler probe frame, so only Kismet kids can find it.

For antennae, I'd like to see some experimentation with equipment that has diverse receive capability. Mounting a dual-antenna adapter in the focal plane of a dish, so the antennae are slightly right and left of focus, could create a "stereo" antenna. With appropriate software to read signal strengths on each one, you could drastically ease the task of finding an AP.

As long as you're driving around, why not contribute to the PlaceLab location-aware database while you're at it?

Upcoming talk and demonstration on the development of Brain-Computer Interfaces: http://www.notacon.org/speakers.html#lowne (shameless plug)

Invasive, motor-cortical BCI development at Utah: http://www.bioen.utah.edu/cni/Projects/Motor.htm

Mike Gibbs' work with BCIs at Oxford University's Robotics Group: http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mgibbs/research.html

The Neural Prostheses program at the National Institutes of Health includes calls for proposals in BCI development: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/npp/

The University of British Columbia's BCI research group: http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~garyb/BCI.htm

Results of the 2003 Brain Computer interface competition (focuses on signal processing techniques): http://ida.first.fraunhofer.de/projects/bci/compet ition/results/index.html

BCI development at the Cognitive Science and Technology group at the Helsinki University of Technology: http://www.lce.hut.fi/research/bci/

Dr. Jessica Bayliss's BCI work and extensive bibliography (very important, seminal work on BCI development): http://www.cs.rit.edu/~jdb/research/ and http://www.cs.rit.edu/~jdb/research/baylissThesis. pdf

Dr. Charles Anderson's work at Colorado State University with EEG pattern classification in BCI systems: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/eeg/index.html

Manchester University's Toby Howard has written some good articles on BCIs, mostly for Popular Science: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/toby/research/bc i/

Dr. Michael Black at Brown University teaches a course in BCI development: http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs295-7/home.html

Cyberkinetics, Inc. makes medical-use BCIs: http://www.cyberkineticsinc.com/

Yes, I agree. There's a lot of events going on of interest to geeks that I tend to not hear about until it's too late. This would be an excellent resource and tool.

For example, I just heard about Notacon here in Cleveland from a friend of a friend. I'm in the area and it would have been a damn shame had I missed it.

That's funny, Notacon is also taking place in Ohio next month, and for some reason, it got stuck on developers instead of the front page.

Does Slashdot need a section for this stuff?