HR Geeks

Customers of Continental VisiNet Broadband who subscribe to their business internet access that is delivered by fixed wireless equipment were notified that they will be shutting down this service on June 1, 2009.

The letter actually refers people to Cox, Verizon and Paetec (which was USLEC).

Oh yea, where’d wimax go?

I dissed the 757 crew and headed Southwest to Raleigh to drop in on their 2600 meeting. I got caught up at work and didn’t get out of Norfolk until around 3:30pm, which delayed me a bit. I had planned to leave at 2pm to make it by the start of their meeting at 5pm. This put me at the Raleigh 2600 around 6:45PM. It was great fun! I met Koft and his girlfriend Dana there (Koft used to live in Hampton R0ads). Saw a few familiar faces from Carolina Con and met new people. Discussion ranged from Ardunio /microcontrollers, to Crestron and other building/entertainment automation platforms, to software, and hardware. Definitely an interesting group of people. I finally forced myself to leave at 11pm, and I have to admit time flew. The group was moving the meeting outside of the coffee shop at this point, the meeting apparently was far from over. In the future I will drop in on their meeting again, but first might have to pay a return visit to the DC 2600 meetings. Around the 1994 – 1996 time frame other locals and myself would make the road trip up there as we didn’t have a meeting here. Perhaps in a few months!

Allright! May 1, and we still had a crowd. In attendance (initial seating order, no we are not sheeple) was RD, Dane, Dane’s Wife’s Eeeeeeeee, Dave, Sunpuke, Beck, and myself. Okokok, so an Eee does not really constitute as a living being, or does it? Since we only have a vague idea of what constitutes life…. probably has some carbon in there too.

The meeting was great, mall was quiet, and only a handful of people had their protective respiration masks on (ok actually no one had a mask on afaik). There was lots of talk. And talk of? Ahh many topics, I balk at providing actual topic data since. Anyways, even though we were not at a single round-table, our linear table arrangement worked well by leaving a gap between the tables. A linear configuration does not necessarily strengthen communication between nodes, as if we were some graph; However, our graph morphs by letting the nodes move around, and we can control the ordering and amplitude of our voices to accomplish the goals of expressing thoughts. This assumes that words really are a medium that is sufficient for exposing all data in a thought.

Where was tele? He caught up with the Raleigh 2600 crew, so hopefully they had a cool time too.

-Matt (enferex)