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Notacon: Geeks, Community, and Technology

Posted by timothy on from the a-fun-time-will-be-had-by-all dept.

jgoeke writes "I attended Notacon last year and was impressed how cool it was for a first-year event. This year the organizers seem to be outdoing themselves and have quite an impressive speaker list, including Fark.com's Drew Curtis, Richard Thieme and CSS guru Eric Meyer. Presentation topics range from community radio to network security to MUDs. For events, the 'Anything but Ethernet' contest looks equally promising (essentially, create the most convolunted network set-up you can NOT using Ethernet). Notacon runs from April 8th through the 10th, so thankfully there's plenty of time for me to put it on my calendar!"

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  1. Re:Radio broadcast by sinnergy · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. Re:Who gives a fuck. by sinnergy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, Drew's not running it and I'm not ring-wing. Fat, well, yeah. Balding, well, kinda. I hardly make my money with boobies, that's for sure.

  3. Re:Acoustic couplers and tin cans by Myself · · Score: 2, Informative

    Normal string should work fine, it's the membranes on each end that you want to improve. Tin cans only resonate on a narrow band of frequencies. Paper cups are a good start.

    Anyway, you've suggested a good first hop, but what do you do with the data once it comes out over the other coupler's serial port? I know you've got some old Lantronix rs232-over-token-ring gear sitting around, don't you?

    Now keep going..

    (BTW, I'm planning a "jam session" after the contest judging, where everyone can graft their entries together into the world's weirdest data transmission setup.)