Notacon: Geeks, Community, and Technology 21
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!"
Anything But Ethernet (Score:2, Interesting)
Can you say "Carrier Pigeons [ietf.org]"?
Re:Anything But Ethernet (Score:5, Funny)
Replying to myself now that I've read the article... (w00t, first and second posts, and they're both ontopic!)
This one seems really easy: Feed the data to the pigeons, and wait for... um... digestion.
Radio broadcast (Score:4, Insightful)
It would be totally excellent if they would broadcast some or all of the speakers. I can't attend the event but I would love to listen in.
It's all about community, right? Let everyone hear the speakers.
Re:Radio broadcast (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Radio broadcast (Score:2)
1. Content created for or by Notacon
2. Content created for NotaconRadio
3. Pre-recorded content created for NotaconRadio
4.
We're not going to do music shows, but otherwise it will be a wide variety of stuff, going for 63 straight hours. Write me for more details.
Submission (Score:4, Funny)
Acoustic couplers and tin cans (Score:2)
Get a couple of tin cans with an acoustic coupler in each one. Have some good wire between them for transmitting the information. I don't think normal string would work well since the volume drop would be a bit much but maybe some thin steel cable or something like that would give better results.
I dunno really, but something like that would be a really cool way to reuse old gear
Re:Acoustic couplers and tin cans (Score:2)
Re:Acoustic couplers and tin cans (Score:2)
Tap out the morse code on the tin can and the other guy then has to decode it and type out the message
Re:Acoustic couplers and tin cans (Score:2)
And of course, the guy listening to this on the other end, will morse 0 or 1 with a flashlight to someone on a mountain that will in turn use semaphore flags to relay them to a guy that will throw pies at either a man or a woman (depending on zero or one). A blindfolded guy will listen to the them and put zeros or ones down o
Re:Acoustic couplers and tin cans (Score:3, Informative)
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 entri
Re:Acoustic couplers and tin cans (Score:1)
BTW, I think I've finally found Myself.
place your bets now (Score:2)
Re:Who gives a fuck. (Score:3, Informative)
Penguicon (Score:2)
Don't forget Penguicon [penguicon.org] in Novi, MI (near Detroit. It's a Linux/Sci-Fi con that's just a whole lot of fun with plenty of games, celebrities, panels, parties, and so on. Check it out if you're in the midwest.
Brief doubletake, but: (Score:2)
Speakers (Score:1)