// pictures and words
Parental duties stopped me from actually participating in any conferences this weekend, but I crashed stopped by Mind Camp 2.0 to say hello to some people I haven’t seen in a while and take some pictures. It looks like it’s going to be another good time. I would have stopped by Linux Fest, but it’s a bit further out. I’m sure I’ll get the rundown at next week’s HackNight at Caffe Vita
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Tonight’s HackNight had a pretty good turnout, discussions moved from free cake (everyone loves free cake) to local content delivery to osx86 to long distance links.
Matt Wilson brought in his vintage 4501 (pre powder-coat case) and his Mark II (the first we ever sold), so we upgraded his kit to Pyramid Linux. Since it’s going on his pitched roof, we twiddled some bits so it will PXE on every boot.
Tonight also marked the end of hacknight at the Redline. They are moving to a restaurant format, and we are a cafe crowd. Next week we meet upstairs at Caffe Vita.
The Redline Cafe now has table service. There were a dozen of us last night. Thoughts?
Last night’s hacknight had a pretty big crowd and involved a bit of take-apart as well as some code building.
Galan brought his iRiver running Rockbox and stuffed an iPod battery inside it.
Ken and I put together a bridge-utils package for Pyramid and we all wondered what we could do with the ruby package that ken built last week
Justin Martenstein showed up for a little bit to talk about MindCamp2.0, and it looks like there will be a fairly large showing from the SeattleWireless crew. We also talked a bit about progress at NodeAmbassador, captive portals, and just how flashy the lights are on the Dell gamer PC.
I took a pile of pictures, but because I didn’t lug my tripod along, most came out blurry… I had a feeling that was going to happen.
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So this is my first post from my new sidekick2 and I have to say, I’m surprised by how nice the user experience is. After my 2 hours of activation nightmare (I don’t blame danger for that), it all just works. A prerequisite for any new phone, I have already fired off a couple of photos to 16photos and for the most part, I am used to the keyboard (a day of IM will do that fast). It is so great to get away from t9.
Missing Sync (29.95) and Danger’s SSH (9.99) were totally neccessary purchases, but are probably the only pieces of software that I will buy unless I am just unaware of the killer hiptop app, which I’m sure someone out there will fill me in on.
Well, they’re not for sale yet, but Here are some zipit add-on boards by TomW that have rs232, SD, and EL backlight drivers.
It still requires a bit of solder and a steady hand, but having all the parts on a pre populated board should make the hacking go a whole lot easier.
Stupid tornado took my hat. I need a new hat. Hat problem solved. Yay urban outfitters, supplier of overpriced cheap hats.
Well, the summit is wrapped up, and although I’ve done a pretty bad job of writing everything up, Lisa Yeo at “A Blog of Her Own” has done an excellent job of covering sessions. Ken is also blogging pretty furiously. It also looks like people are picking up the NS4CWN tag.
Today we all met in the big room, and there was some good light for pictures, so I pulled out the big lens and got some.
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Oh yeah. there was a tornado. We had to run. It was scary.
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