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HR-2600: Meeting Summary for March 5, 2010

enferex — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:05:26 +0000

Gather round ye nerds
Coasters, Coupons, were Conversed
Many attended

So, last night produced quite a reasonable turnout, however not prime in magnitude. As in the past, I’ll try to recall the attendance: Jody, BSD Bandit, Sunpuke, Tele, Mark G, TJ, Andrew, Dave, Bill, and myself (enferex). This is not a static association of people to chairs (e.g. order), as we are human and exemplify dynamic properties. Thus, people move around and change sitting order. Phrase of the evening “grind-core.”

-Matt (enferex)

Stupid iPhone Tricks

adam — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:01:57 +0000

I learned something interesting today – you can get access to a bunch of logs from your iPhone, without jailbreaking it! There are number of SQLite databases stored in
~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
on your OS X machine that the iPhone syncs with.
The filenames are SHA1 sums of their location on the iPhone [src]. Through trial and error, I’ve figured out the following files that should be common to every iPhone:

992df473bbb9e132f4b3b6e4d33f72171e97bc7a.mddata Voicemail list ff1324e6b949111b2fb449ecddb50c89c3699a78.mddata Call log 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28.mddata SMS Log 740b7eaf93d6ea5d305e88bb349c8e9643f48c3b.mddata Notes database 31bb7ba8914766d4ba40d6dfb6113c8b614be442.mddata Contact List

The schema for most of these can be found here: http://damon.durandfamily.org/archives/000487.html (although he references their on-phone location, and talks about jailbroken phones, these SQLite DB files are accessible on your desktop machine, and are updated in place every time you sync your phone.

In addition to these, a few interesting DBs I found that are specific to apps installed on my phone are:
6639cb6a02f32e0203851f25465ffb89ca8ae3fa.mddata Facebook friends list 970922f2258c5a5a6d449f85b186315a1b9614e9.mddata Flightstats 5ad81c93601ac423bc635c7936963ae13177147b.mddata Daily Burn food log

Each of these database can be accessed via the sqlite3 command line tool for interactive use. For bulk processing and playing with stuff in a spreadsheet or other DB, you can dump whole tables to CSV easily with sqlite3
sqlite3 -csv -separator , 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28.mddata "select * from message" > smshistory.csv
you can dump your SMS history to a CSV file.

I’m writing a few scripts to generate ‘top talkers’ and some other statistics, and will post those later.

Local Robot takes it’s FIRST Steps

adam — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:43:18 +0000

Norfolk Technical Center is competing in this year’s US FIRST Robotics Challenge. A few HRGeeks members have been mentoring the students – assisting with software design / development, networking, and robot construction and electrical connections.
After 5 long weeks, the robot is moving under it’s own power, being remotely driven via joystick.

NTC FIRST Team’s Robot takes it’s ‘first’ steps! from HR Geeks on Vimeo.

Click through for a higher resolution view of the video.

HR-2600: Upcoming February Meeting

enferex — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:40:17 +0000

It seems that some of us will be attending Shmoocon in DC this year. So, if anyone happens to show up at the meeting, drop a comment or write a post to let us attending Shmoocon know whats up!

Also, this upcoming meeting will mark the 7th anniversary of HR 2600, as February 2003 was the first gathering.

-Matt (enferex)

HR-2600: Meeting Summary for January 1, 2010

enferex — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:51:04 +0000

Happy new year… sure, it’s not based on a true lunar calendar, but ah, it’s periodic. Anyways, new year, and another meeting. Despite the mall closing early (6:00), Jody and myself did show up, thus upholding the existence of this edition of As The Nerds Tur (yes, I just applied verbage to Alan Turing’s last name and concept of Turing Machine). We chatted about stuff and then moved the meeting, temporarily, to B&N where we could browse some magazines, kill time, and hang.

FOSS for all!

-Matt (enferex)

HR-2600: Meeting Summary for December 4, 2009

enferex — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:54:12 +0000

As in the past, we converged upon a table, or two, within the food court of the mall. As I arrived the meeting was already rocking, in attendance was Sunpuke, Jody, Tele, Remad, Dave, and myself. (Order derived from where I was sitting and iterating in a clockwise fashion). Fun meeting, as we did become like a pack of nomads in search of collaboration and variety, we decided to move the meeting to Kelly’s (also in the mall), which is open late, and allowed people with a penchant for the distilled beverage to imbibe. The meeting continued until midnight, and then disbanded.

Overall, the meeting was great, and I think the moving from the food-court was a great decision, and just goes to show that pseudo-random variety can enhance the social efforts of a group, as was seen by this possibly being the longest running HR-2600 episode. So… a buttload, yes, is a unit of measure. But, is there a platinum SI unit for this?

-Matt (enferex)

New User Groups

adam — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:31:50 +0000

I’ve added 2 new users groups to the side bar:

Hampton Roads Solid Works User Group (run by Jason McCrory)
757 Objective C / Cocoa-heads (run by Ken Collins)

Be sure to give them a look, and go to the meetings if they’re in your area of interest!

HR-2600: Metting Summary for November 6, 2009

enferex — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:53:17 +0000

Zoiks Shaggy! Nice turn-out out tonight, rather, last night. But time… can I impose some kind of restriction on a dimension I have seemingly little control over. Time is a human definition of some, pretty abstract, thing. So the order of sitting, while it does mutate during the course of the meeting, was at one time:
Tele, Remad, Paul’s girl, Paul, RD, Sunpuke, and myself.

And what was the topic of choice……… sensitive dependence on initial conditions (a definition of Chaos Theory). In other words, we had no planned topics, but we found enough order to communicate as a group. Also, the Bat Phone is no more, a Blackberry was dissected, pill-containers can hold lots of Torx, and corn own3s us.

-Matt (enferex)

HR-2600: Meeting Summary for October 3, 2009

enferex — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:47:50 +0000

Prime number off attendees. Of course, all meetings start like that, 1, 2, 3, ….. 5. 5 attendees ahhh hah hah (Count from Sesame Street). Those attendees being Remad, Tele, Wallybert, MarkG, and myself. It was a good meeting, with little if any cross-talk. Some discussion on previous Shmoos and HOPEs, along with some mention of this upcoming years Shmoo and HOPE. No need to elaborate any further, but did any one-catch what those illuminated jelly-looking things were at the Last HOPE?

-Matt (enferex)

757Studio Presents an upcoming event, Nov 5th 2009

Ethan — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:14:15 +0000

The local Hampton Roads Ruby/Cocoa Users Groups / Ken Collins is throwing an event friends, and it looks like it’s going to be good!

“On November 5th, 2009 Hampton Roads’ premier learning and network event for software developers, interactive agencies, and technology entrepreneurs will be held at Grow Interactive, Norfolk.”

Speakers:

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware
by Andy Hunt
Author & Co-Founder Pragmatic Bookshelf

The Joy of Ruby
Clinton R. Nixon
Development Director at Viget Labs

iPhone Development: Touching Cocoa
Jamie Pinkham
Software Engineer at Mobelux

Sounds like a great event. It’s free, seating limited to 50. RSVP today!!

More information at www.757studio.org