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lol, 2600 is a mixed bag at best. Its really not worth the paper its printed on. You may find one good article a year. There really are no good printed magazines.

All the good stuff is on IRC.

Its hard enough to get people to come to London let alone Glasgow, plus I don't think anything else is really going to happen this year. I've got the 24th to the 31st of August off if someone wants to put something together, but I was thinking of just going to Minnesota to see some friends. I think in future, one person needs to pick the dates and place, then just see who wants to come, as voting does not really work well in this case.

Yeah first Friday of every month. They do a mid month too, but not many people go to the mid month. I'd stick to the main one. You did not really miss anything on the Saturday, OpenTech was a bit boring, I bumped into a few friends so had to stick it out for a bit, but I ended up wondering off at about 5ish.

Yes. I'm just about to head up to London as there are a few things I want to do before. I'll probably head to The Nell of Old Drury at 7.30pm too, as I want to take a shower and do a few other bits before heading to the pub after my thing.

Yeah its fairly straightforward, you should really have a good understanding by that point and it was easier than uni. The Juniper networking certs are worth doing too, same for Red Hat and Solaris.

I did Cisco certs, most over three months in Mumbai but I did my CCIE's and CCDE in the US over the space of two years. There really not that hard, I've always loved Cisco products so I already know 98% of things covered.

Some kinda induction loop built into the roads, would cost way too much and would take decades. I think its one of those things which is possible but will never happen. I would like a bridge built from the UK to the US, but I think that is never going to happen.

Have a good one.

I like and own a Dodge RAM with a 8.3-liter V-10, I've also owned a few 60/70's US cars. Modern US cars are fairly poor, there is no real reason for it that I can see. There are lots of very good engineers and designers, the only reason I can think of is the people at the top of GM/Ford/ and so on, are dinosaurs and have no idea what the markets wants/need and just keep pushing out the same car, again and again. Car manufactures should be looking at the future trying to come up with what's next and in truth American engines could be made lighter and produce more power per liter if they tried. I don't think electric cars are a good idea as the manufacturing of them uses a lot of highly poisonous chemicals, which are very hard to dispose of when the car comes to the end of its life, plus there is the charging issue. If I was in power I'd push hydrogen cars as well as tripling the number of reactors to produce hydrogen and oxygen. I think you should offer people small cars but still have big ones if they want. If people really wanted to save the environment you would buy cars made in America, none of this electric shit which is made in 8 to 10 countries and shiped to another for assembly. Every single part should be made within the US (not really doable at the moment). As for the rest of the world, well I don't think the UK could support that type of thing so it would have to be a European wide idea.

Okay, so this thing is fast approaching (next weekend) I have no idea who is turning up but if you are and want to meet up for drinks, I'll be at The Nell of Old Drury, http://www.nellofolddrury.com/direct.htm from around 19:30ish on Friday, if you want to meet there. If anyone wants to meet up earlier pm me and we can swap numbers, I'll be about all day doing things. I'll be operating on 69MHz if you have access to a radio. I've set up a few numbers: UK Number#Extension: +(44)208-1146104 # 651 US Number#Extension: +(1)646-3857354 # 306 Australia Number#Extension: +(61)280-147294 # 297 I'll take them down afterwards

lol, just do what I do, N810 hooked up to a 500mW card via USB Y cable, hook the other connector up to a USB power pack and then plug a directional patch antenna to the 500mW card via a R-SMA to N type connector. Run Kismet, find what your looking for and bring up the real time signal strength, when you move around the stronger the signal that's the direction they are in. Looks for someone with a laptop or that looks out of place and that's them.

I hear they use Windows Movie Maker

I've always liked Sony's laptops. Never had a problem with Linux support and if you don't mind the colour, you can get some real cheap deals. The pink Vaio was 10% less than the silver one as it would not sell, same spec and everything just a different colour. I'm now carrying a pink laptop.

Just install auto-apt for her and she will be compiling from source in no time. Its not the best way but its fast if you have no idea. auto-apt run ./configure make make install

You could just "take control" of a bunch of multi-user computers/routers/any network enabled device depending on your skill level, in universities, colleges, schools and use them as exit points for network traffic, its not that hard to even set up your own Tor like network only you can use.

Been building a new server room, writing a new firmware for a Bluetooth AP, getting tools working on an n810. and building a new UAV, doing some IP satellite related stuff and a few other bits

I have a very large collection at my US house, but I'm in the UK about half the year so I'm limited to shotguns and rifles while there and even then the paper work and police checks make it hard to own guns.

Wow that tool is older than time its self, well maybe not that old but still very old.

I'm happy enough to meet anyone, but the only person I know that is under 18 that will most likely turn up is James, but he is not far off it as he is off to uni this year and I've known him for a while and he's an okay bloke. I have to say the issue is as said by stingwray, there will be places that may not allow under 18's in, such as pubs. Alcohol is the great social lubricant that helps the world function that little bit better and although drinking is by no means a massive part of any meeting, it still remains a part of it and something you do while talking shit. On a side note, I've got every tool/app/random shit working on my N810 and as it supports USB Host, I'll be bring that over a laptop as it fits in my pocket along with radio and other random tools. Have to say I've not played with my N810 in a while but I'm falling back in love with it now I have a dev environment set up for it, to do cross compiling for things like Kismet, Aircrack-ng, P0f, dsniff, nmap, ettercap, Strobe, Scapy/Scapy6 and many, many other tools along with my own code.

If people can make I'd say come, talk, drink, fuck with tech, laugh and make a few friends. I'm sure a lot of us are not around a lot of tech people that really have a passion in technology.

Fair enough I think its mostly going to be London based people turning up anyway.

You want to be there the day before for the bbq. For the flight and hotel your talking £800 and £72 for the ticket at current exchange right, your also want about £400 for walking around money, as in drinks, food, and bits.

Yeah I'd be up for Berlin, it would have made more sense there too.

No, Paris is a shit hole and the people are some of the worst in the world. France is a nice place as a whole but Paris brings the whole place down.