Meeting tonight starting at 6pm! See the Meeting Info page for more info.
This meeting was a particularly large meeting. Most “active” members were there at some point throughout the night and several of us overflowed outside. AltF4 gave his advanced presentation on cryptography, Zapperlink brought an Intel I7 powered laptop and an Atom powered IP phone, Rax gave away a couple of shirts (I got the Android one, woohoo!) and other miscellaneous conversations went on as well.
This was a much smaller 2600 meeting. We were moved to a different room at UAT. Zapperlink brought his PSP and talked about some of the cool unconventional things that could be done with it. Zap also brought an Intel goodie. Rax brought a live Project Looking glass, but the computer at UAT wouldn’t boot it. Dual Parallel brought some phone numbers. I did another demo of the blue/red/silver box. We collectively made a bunch of stupid jokes at the expense of the movie Hackers, it may have something to do with the fact that there is a rave coming up using the name hackers. After the meeting, most of us headed to YC’s to get something to eat, revelations were had by most. Then about half of the group headed to Counter Culture for a little while.
Attendance count: 10-12
I don’t remember a whole lot about this meeting. This meeting took place at Nicks Pizza. Rax gave RetroTech a server for the phx2600 PBX project, although retro has since pulled out of the project.
Attendance count: About 15-20
Our last meeting at Borders. ZEROcool brought his Xbox, we didn’t get the chance to softmod it due to Nicks not having the remote for their TV. Zapperlink brought his PSP with some more “updates” straight outa Japan. Rax brought hacker stickers in several languages. There was talk about defcon. We traveled over to Nicks pizza early. Jargon had a presentation on gambling. We tripped out w/3D glasses and an oldskool laptop. IamtheEvil1 rode on the mechanical horse for his B-day. What was left of us headed over to Counter Culture to chill for a little longer. What was left of that crowd (Zapperlink and I) went to IHOP.
Attendance count: About 20-25
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We are now getting to big for the Borders coffee shop; they want a group our size to be scheduled. So, we are going to get on the schedule. In this meeting we had a lot of gear donated to Zapperlink for a group community project: Making a emulated gaming system for a daycare. Rax did a presentation on a replacement OS for LinkSys WAP/Router. ZEROcool brought an ipod with Linux dual booted on it (it didn’t have sound support though, funny irony). Colin brought a super rugged lappy.
Attendance count: About 25+
Retro brought a 286 lappy and hot glued some shinny stuff to it. Rax brought a mac with Tiger. Nak brought his ham gear and used the autopatch method to call my cell. LosT brought a bunch of embedded web server gear. Zaphraud brought his cantenna, made from a pringles can. I handed out a few vip 2.0 prototypes for people to test. After that, half of us went the Nicks Pizza and had a bite to eat.
Attendance count: About 25
Fun meeting, probably the most disorganized yet too; we never really formed one big table together like we usually do. Rax brought knoppix through the looking glass edition (has it worked on anyones box yet?). I took my toasted netgear router, and I also brought some security screwdriver bits. Lockpicking was in fashion again, I guess this is just a phx2600 tradition; some hackers like dumpster diving, some hackers like phreaking, some hackers like trains for some reason…we still like all of that, but we really like picking locks.
Attendance count: About 15
This was a very well attended meeting. No real theme this time either, but many people brought much gear. Iamtheevil1 brought some phreaking toys, including a cool old handset with alligator clips. Rax brought along a Mac mini and booted it up for us to use. RetroTech brought his old radio to do an antenna mod right at the meeting. In the circle I was sitting in, talk ranged mostly around programming (Java and C# predominately). I also brought along the locks (8 of them) and picks since Surface_Tension wanted to learn, and that he did, he worked his way up to the master lock, along with some other hackers. Most of the lock picking was done when we went to Nicks’ Pizza…Pizza and lock picking.
Attendance count: About 20
It seems the theme of this meeting was barcodes. I brought in about 30 “universal” VIP cards that have a VIP code for 3 different grocery stores, the other barcode is an “easter egg.” RAX brought his scanner and a laptop equip with some java software that can decode the 2d barcode on the back of a drivers ID, so we played with that. dec33var brought a few 1d barcode scanners with him. Zapperlink had some great info on Krypto. Also rhy0t brought some lock picks and a couple locks, we tried picking them for a while, she was the only one to get both locks, a few of us got the easier master(?)lock (I got it, yay me).
Attendance count: About 12-15
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