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2600 meeting is at Pembroke Mall, 6pm till closing

Ethan — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:16:08 +0000

A user mail entry appeared in the latest issue of 2600 Magazine questioning if the meetings still exist, and which mall they are at.

They are at Pembroke Mall. Sorry for the confusion from the HRGeeks calendar.

They still go on, but attendance is random.

Arrivederci, Matt

adam — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:49:30 +0000

Today is Matt’s last day here on the top of the world. From everybody at HRGeeks, 757 Labs, and the 2600 Crew, have a safe trip!
(And make sure your place has enough sleep space for a bunch of us to crash!).

Upcoming Joint Warfighting Conference

adam — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:07:04 +0000

I know a large number of the HR Geeks community are involved in IT-related work for the Department of Defense, so I figured I’d share this.

Coming up soon, AFCEA (Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association) and USJFCOM (United States Joint Forces Command) are sponsoring the Joint Warfighting Conference at the Virginia Beach Convention Center on May 11-13th. Conference registration is free (and appears to be open to the public). Two highlights will be luncheon keynotes with Adm. Mike Mullen (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) and Gen. David Petraeus (Commander, US Central Command).

A few of the panels (such as “How do we fight through a digital meltdown?” with VADM Browne should be quite interesting. Lunch and dessert are provided each day by a sponsor.

iPhone Forensics, sans iPhone [hrgeeks 2 talk]

adam — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:31:22 +0000

This was a talk I gave at the HRGeeks ][ meeting, Thursday. You can grab the PDF [4.1MB] as well.

iPhone forensics, without the iPhone

View more presentations from hrgeeks.

Richmond Code Camp 2009.2

Ethan — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:16:07 +0000

From their home page, “The next Richmond Code Camp will be held at the J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College campus on Parham Road on Saturday, October 3rd 2009. It’s totally free. No gimmicks. No sales pitches. Enjoy breakfast and lunch at no charge while you mingle with your peers in a state of the art learning facility and enjoy over 40 awesome sessions covering a wide range of database, software and portal development topics.”

Looks interesting and isn’t far. I was told there are presentations there not specific to Microsoft Windows environment. Would be good to hear a report from someone that attends!

Official site: http://richmondcodecamp.org/
(Uses Microsoft site for event registration)

Neighborcon in Knoxville, TN was Neighborly!

Ethan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:39:37 +0000

I ventured to Knoxville, TN over the weekend for a small con. I think the official attendance was around 27 people. It was good! People came from DC, Chicago, Atlanta, Lexington, Philly, Virginia and Maine (That I remember). Overall it was a great time, and fun to be able to discuss technical topics with knowledgeable people.

Neighborcon at the Yacht Club

HR-2600: Meeting Summary for June 5, 2009

enferex — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:25:08 +0000

Despite the torrential downpour and threat of tornado action, the meeting was still on. In attendance, starting counter-clockwise from my seating position, was Remad, Andrew, Telemnstr, Jody, and myself (enferex). It was a pretty chill meeting, lots of discussion. So, what did we talk about? Tunnels/caves/inner-earth dwellings of mega-coolness. And, of course, we talked about Sneakers, and the new Star-Trek. While, I have yet to see this movie, Jody pulled out a killer rant on Spock and the temporal association with the Beastie Boy’s. In fact, I suggest, even if not a fan of either of the aforementioned nouns, to check Jody’s rant. Well, it still seems that the meeting is listed at Lynnhaven still. The proper listing-authorities have been contacted. But that’s how we operate, super-elusive, after-all no one really reads these summaries anyways.

Whoops, I was wrong. The official 2600 site does have the proper information listed. So I guess we aren’t as elusive as I originally mentioned.

-Matt (enferex)

AUVSI and ONR’s 2nd International Autonomous Surface Vehicle Competition

Ethan — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:57:19 +0000

Heads up, there is a competition coming up in Virginia Beach of college level autonomous surface vehicles.

More info can be seen at the official site http://www.auvsi.org/competitions/surface.cfm.

It is happening on the 18th thru 21st of June 2009 at Founders Inn
in Virginia Beach, VA, USA

Continental VisiNet Broadband shutting down metro wireless

Ethan — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:41:40 +0000

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?

May 1st, Raleigh 2600 meeting

Ethan — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:53:37 +0000

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!