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Concluding Thoughts (7 replies)

krnlpanik — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:48:00 -0400

Wow--what a weekend. Notacon, in its 5th iteration, has yet to disappoint me. Thank you so very much from everyone that came and participated in making Notacon what it is. Everyone was (mostly) well-behaved and the hotel staff didn't throw any thing at me. So Kudos.

I hope that our level of service was second to none BUT in the event that it was I would like you all to let me know what we can do better next year.

This is the thread to do that in.

Please post ANY thoughts you have no matter HOW minuscule on what we can do to make it a better conference for all involved parties and I will personally make sure that we address all issues at the next core staff meeting.

Thanks!

--KP

Situation Wanted (no replies)

Mad Ivan — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:12:50 -0400

Looking for Crash space on Floor (no replies)

Tall Midget — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:19:16 -0400

Hi there,

My name is Tobias, I'm looking for a floor to crash starting on Thursday, I have a sleeping bag. I'm respectful of people's property and I expect you to be too, i've had people steal my stuff before and know how it feels. I'm a college student right now from Michigan, I pay you money or do some barter thing if you like, I can write music amongst other things.

I just decided to go at the last minute. If you want to get to know me better just call me up: 248-506-3845 Call anytime, I don't care. If you guys are loud and like to party I can roll with that, if you guys are quiet and just like to get to bed early, I can work with that too.

Holiday Inn Select City Centre - Overflow/Alternatives (2 replies)

drc — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:38:30 -0400

The online booking site linked from [www.notacon.org] indicates no availability, calling the front desk gave the same result.

I was told this was close by:

HAMPTON INN-DOW <2162416600>
Hampton Inn Cleveland-Downtown
1460 East 9th Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
1-216-241-6600

Hampton Hotel's website gave prices starting at $129 for 2 doubles or 1 king, looked like $10 more for smoking vs. non.

Anyone have any others?

(RESOLVED) Requesting Roomshare (no replies)

slash — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:12:50 -0400

YOU MAY DISREGARD THIS REQUEST.

ADMIN DELETE THIS POST.

Looking for a ticket (no replies)

Tall Midget — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:42:50 -0400

If anybody has a spare ticket they want to sell, let me know. I'll buy it off you, just call me: 248-506-3845.

REQUEST - 2m^2 sleeping area on a hotel room floor - I am quiet and trouble free, kick me out whenever you want (no replies)

quietriot — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:45:48 -0400

I would like to borrow just a bit of room to sleep on a hotel room floor - one night or two. I need less than 2 square meters. I have a sleeping bag and can bring a pillow, towel and all other necessary items. I am willing to pay you and I promise to not get in your way. I am not a bum, I was just too late to register for a room at the hotel - all booked up.

I promise not to be a bit of trouble, and am very clean and noise free. I am into unix, OpenPGP (identity, crypto, and anon stuff), locksport, radio stuff (I am a General class Ham), filesystems, drum n bass, and greenhouse agriculture. I work and study at NC State Univ. in Agricultural and Biological engineering. Myself and Zip from our NC2600 group will be driving up and we didn't know how many people were going till the last minute and by then all the rooms were gone.

Interested to split? As little as one bit of floor for one of us for one night would be a super offer. If you could host two of us that would be great. We are both easy to get along with.

If you go for it and something doesn't work out - I am happy to leave at your request at any time. I promise not to wreck or steal any of your gear.

Name the price it would be worth to you.... If you are just one in a large room, we can make it better for both of us.

Send me an email if you think you'd be willing to help. Interview me and we can talk too. email: quietriot '@' 80d '.' org

Thanks!
QR

Ride offered from NC (RDU) --> Notacon on Friday (no replies)

quietriot — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:29:03 -0400

Please contact me if you would like a ride from anywhere between Raleigh, NC and Cleveland to Notacon.

I will be traveling :
WEST on 40/85 from Raleigh to Winston-Salem
NORTH on 77 to Cleveland

I have two with me already. I'll have room for one more.

Please send an email if I can help you out. quietriot '@' 80d '.' org

jam session (5 replies)

krue — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:48:51 -0400

So those who were at the jam session last year may remember that it was a little ... uncooperative. I liked the chaos, but a little more cooperation would have improved the output substantially.

Some ideas:

Someone could bring a sequencer so we'll all have something consistent to play along with. I'm working on a sequencer mode for the avrsyn -- hopefully it will be done in time.

We could play something alleatoric a la "In C". That way, everyone is on the same page but not quite.

We could try and create an entry for Blockparty. Or are most people already working on entries of their own?

Who's bringing what? I'm bringing the avrsyn like last year, though with updated firmware. I've also got a digital delay line in progress on breadboard to try out.

Ride available from Detroit, Thursday morning (1 reply)

Myself — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:01:58 -0400

I have one seat and modest luggage space available. (I'm hauling down a lot of crap to set up.) I'm trying to leave Thursday morning from Madison Heights, with the aim of getting to Cleveland around Noon. I'll be driving home Sunday evening with everyone else.

Send a private message on here, or just email my handle at notacon dot org.

Airport Rides (4 replies)

krnlpanik — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:50:42 -0400

I'll be in the greater Cleveland area available to transport people in need of a ride. Airport is prime since I live right next to it. Please let me know if you need a ride.

ride available from Maine (no replies)

thekat03 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:10:58 -0400

t0d and I are driving down thursday evening/friday morning (likely with a nap somewhere on the way, unless I sleep well post-call thursday during the day). we drive through worcester, massachusetts and the length of I-90 from there to cleveland. we plan on driving back ass early sunday morning due to me needing to work sunday night. anyone who wants to hitch a ride with us along that route, and is willing to comply with our less than friendly timeframe, speak up.

Toledo Area Ride (no replies)

uid0complex — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:07:11 -0400

I've got room for two coming from Toledo, leaving Thursday evening (6:00 or so PM) and coming back on Sunday afternoon.

ride available (no replies)

suellen — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:19:00 -0400

Grandma and Grandpa driving from Traverse City to Cleveland by way of Grand Rapids, Lansing, Ann Arbor and Toledo. Willing to pick up anyone along the way. We have a 7-passenger van ... and references. Do you?

Suellen

Ride request from Detroit area (3 replies)

krue — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:50:28 -0400

I'm looking for a ride to Notacon from the Detroit area.

Alternatively, if there are no offers, I'll be taking the Greyhound 4414 on Thursday evening. Other Detroiters are welcome to make this the Notacon bus.

Driving From South East PA on April 3rd. (no replies)

InspiredChaos — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:43:41 -0500

Heyas, got gas money but no vehic to get you to cleveland? I'll be driving from exit 312 to 247 of the Turnpike then following US322 up to I80 on April 3rd. With 1-3 seats available for the cost of gas. My return trip will be likely be on Monday the 7th, so plan accordingly. You can find me on the #notacon or #blockparty IRC channels (IC), but I'll also monitor this space. Take care!

IBM Z50 (no replies)

nesuser2 — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:31:57 -0400

I hate to post two topics but they are certainly completely separate. Last year, this could be part of my amazing imagination, I thought there was somebody walking around with an IBM Z50 on which they had loaded NetBSD. I've traveled the many "tubes" of the internet and just can't find enough information on setting this up. I have managed to get it to start the install process but it always tells me the disk is full. Or the install just stalls. I get this both via ftp and http. Anyways, if anybody has any info on this or feels they can be of any assistance, let me know. Thanks for any help in advance.

NICs NICs NICs (no replies)

nesuser2 — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:16:58 -0400

A couple people spotted me peddling off part of my junk collection this evening in the hallway. If you were there...you did notice that is all completely random stuff and I did manage to get rid of most of it. However, I do have a sizeable number of NIC's remaining(15 or more) that I would still like to get rid of to lighten the load on the way home. I was hoping for $2 a piece out of them...I have what I think is about 3 modems(think one is ISA, some are taped in a box which is why i add curiosity to the number) that I'm hoping to get $2(for all) out of. That's really about it. If you think for some reason that my prices are too high...feel free to inquire. I'll be scanning the forums for any responses before i leave tomorrow.

Just looked in the box again...i've got 2 DVDRW's and 4 CDRW's, most are memorex i think with actual cases. $2 for all 6

Just an added note on the NIC's and the modems. Most are pulled from computers that were given to me or any other various ways I can acquire computers through trades and whatnot. So...I can say that they all work but the price is quite right to me. I have had this box of NIC's around for a bit and each time i've pulled one to use in a server or something, I haven't been disappointed once. Most of them are CNET Pro 100 cards, some linksys, some network everywhere and a couple realtek's. I'm sure there are some others sprinkled and somebody stopped in to ask if I had any 3coms and that's a no. Feel free to inquire...as mentioned above. Thanks for looking! hopefully I can help somebody out and they can help me out :)

Ride from PGH / roomshare friday (no replies)

jonbro — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:49:02 -0400

Hey folks, I will be driving from pittsburgh after work on friday evening, probably around 5pm (maybe earlier, I could be convinced to cut out).

I also have a room that will presumably have some floor space or possibly a bed which I would be willing to share. It is not at the conference, but around the corner. I only booked it for friday night.

have a good one,

-Jonathan

(very) old Macintosh systems up for grabs (no replies)

dewey — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:54:44 -0400

I have a couple of really old Mac systems rotting in my basement. Notacon seems like a smart place to find them a good home, but I'm not going to schlep them to the con if nobody wants them. Therefore, if you're interested in taking either of these systems off my hands (free), please reply either in this thread or to dewey (at) thinkythings (dot) org. You have until Saturday morning to make up your mind.

The systems are as follows:

One PowerBook 540c. Floppy drive, no CD. Looks like it has a built-in modem and ethernet port, but the ethernet requires a special dongle to convert it to RJ-45.

One Macintosh LC 4MB RAM. It comes with a keyboard, mouse, 12" Apple monitor, and an external hard drive (150MB?). There's also a smaller internal hard drive (80 MB?). No ethernet on this guy.

Both systems boot up and have a minimal operating system installed. Both machines are in very good physical condition.

Let me know if you're interested in either system (or both). In the unlikely event that multiple people are interested, preference will go to the person who describes the coolest project they intend to do with this hardware.

-- Drew

Notacon ticket for sale, $50. (no replies)

hijexx — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:21:16 -0400

I pre-registered but cannot use my ticket now because of illness. Non-refundable :( Anyone want to get into Notacon for $50? Email me and we can work something out. Paypal would be a good choice please note this is not my PayPal account email address so please contact me first.

infomodity -at- yahoo -dot- com

Thanks.

Ride available from Massachusetts (no replies)

az — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:01:14 -0400

I'm leaving Bedford, MA at around 5:00 PM on Thursday, and driving through NY on 90 for most of that night. If anyone is on 90 and needs a ride, let me know here and we'll see if we can set something up.

Ride/Room share from Detroit (no replies)

AmnesiacOpera — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:32:49 -0400

I'm looking to get a ride from the metro-detroit area. I'm more than willing to provide gas money, I just don't trust my car to make the drive. I'm also looking to share a room. Any help would be appreciated.

Rideshare From Philly Burbs (no replies)

InspiredChaos — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:09:07 -0400

Hey folks,
I'm looking for someone to share my fuel costs/be a safety buddy. I'm driving from West Chester, PA to Cleveland via I-80 on Thursday the 26th. And returning on Monday the 30th following the con. See you there!
Inspired Chaos

Cost question (2 replies)

Graphik — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:49:52 -0400

Hey all, I am a bit confused so hopefully someone here can clarify. Is there a fee to get into notacon? Is that what the 60 dollars would be for, or is that to purchase a booth or participate in blockparty?

What are you bringing to Notacon? (1 reply)

krue — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:01:14 -0400

So this topic was lost when the forums crashed...

I'm bringing my avrsyn [krue.net] synthesizer and a small MIDI controller. I will probably also bring some AVR boards to demonstrate my forth kernel avrforth [krue.net].

Anything but Ethernet ideas (1 reply)

Myself — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:14:59 -0500

Just combing through my bookmarks, I came across a number of sites that prospective AbE entrants might familiarize themselves with.

[www.motron.com]
These folks make a bidirection ASCII<-->DTMF bridge board. Oh, the possibilities.

[www.pira.cz]
You know the RDS subcarrier data on FM broadcasts? Decoders are all over. Here's an encoder. Think Ramsey for the transmitter.

Cellsocket and Dock'n'Talk devices, bridge between POTS and cellular networks.

[amasci.com]
Bill Beatty's directory of suppliers. Every mad scientist should have catalogs from most of these outfits.

[www.sparkfun.com]
Spark Fun Electronics, makers of prototyping supplies and breakout boards for all sorts of nifty stuff. Small RF modules, rs232 level shifters, etc.

[www.autohotkey.com]
AutoHotKey is FOSS for remapping your keyboard and making macros. Also works with infrared receivers, hint hint.

Hyperlinktech and Demarctech both carry all sorts of wireless-related gadgetry. The renowned CM9 card isn't wifi, nota bene. And you've got to love Demarc's ATX PoE supply.

[www.bushytails.net]
Optical encoder wheel pattern generator. If you're doing data over rotating shafts, this'll save you some time.

[www.qsl.net]
[www.byonics.com]
[www.akdart.com]
Just a couple ham radio-related pages to get the ideas flowing... There will be an automatic mega-bonus for any entry which achieves EME bounce and recovers the data.

That's all for now. Share your own resources! Post questions about the rules in the 'rules' thread.

Newb (5 replies)

fxyxixe — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:36:54 -0500

I'll be attending my first Notacon this year. I am also presenting at it. I guess I would just like to make some friends before hand so I feel more comfortable?

How many people are usually in attendance?

Anything but Ethernet revised rules (no replies)

Myself — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:27:14 -0500

[wiki.notacon.org]

Slight scoring changes this year, plus: Your setup must be documented in order to be judged! Comments?

Ham radio special event station! (no replies)

bunsen — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:53:40 -0500

I'm working on setting up an amateur radio station for the con. I've got the callsign N4C for the duration of the con, an HF rig, an antenna, and some control hardware collected and mostly working. My intention is to show off some of the cool stuff that can be done with ham radio, particularly things that will appeal to geeks -- satellite communications, digital HF stuff, homebrew equipment, etc. It may even get worked into an Anything but Ethernet link.

Physical setup is something of a challenge, since the station's controls will probably be in the consuite. We're putting the antennas on the roof (as well as the radios, 'cuz I don't have 16 floors' worth of coax), so everything has to be remote-controlled. I've almost got the HF rig's control setup working, but I don't have a suitable UHF/VHF radio yet so I can't set that up.

I'm gonna need some help with hardware (like that VHF/UHF rig that I don't own), and lots of help running the station during the con (control operators wanted!). If you want to get involved, post here or email me at [my callsign]@notacon.org.

Bunsen
KC2PIT